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Children's Rights

January 14, 2022

UN Decries Imminent Execution of Juvenile Offender Hossein Shahbazi in Iran

Session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Another juvenile offender, Hossein Shahbazi, is in imminent danger of being executed in Iran after being sentenced to death as a ...

December 17, 2021

UN Adopts Resolution Criticizing Iran’s Human Rights Abuses

On December 16, 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted draft resolution II, “Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic ...

December 13, 2021

Teachers Across Iran Protest for Fair Pay, Release of Jailed Colleagues

Teachers and supporters protested in the streets of more than 119 Iranian cities across Iran ...

November 24, 2021

UN Calls on Iran to Commute Death Sentences Against Child Offenders Upon Execution of Arman Abdolali

The United Nations has strongly condemned the execution of child offender Arman Abdolali in a press release republished below. Comment by UN Human Rights Office ...

August 30, 2021

The Life of an Iranian Child Bride: An Animation by Marjan Farsad

By the age of eleven, “Raha” already had seven children. Married off to a man five times her age, she was in poor health when her situation was accidentally discovered in the Iranian ...

May 14, 2021

Security Forces Respond to Iranian High School Protests with Force

Teachers’ Union: “What right do the police have to treat the children of our country with such brutal violence?” As high school final ...

March 11, 2021

Joint Statement: Civil Society Groups Call on Iran to Overturn Disbandment of Prominent Charity

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March 9, 2021

UN: Women and Girls in Iran Treated as Second Class Citizens, Reforms Urgently Needed

UN Press Release, GENEVA (8 March 2021) – Women and girls continue to be treated as second class citizens in Iran, a UN ...

February 15, 2021

New UN Report Assails Iran for Persistent Discrimination against Women

Juvenile Executions, Persecution of Human Rights Defenders Also Condemned In the latest report issued by the UN’s top expert on Iran, UN ...

February 1, 2021

Dying of Hopelessness: Suicides on the Rise in Iran

Suicides increased in Iran in 2020, according to state medical data. Blue-collar workers as well as students who’ve been disproportionately impacted by the ...

December 1, 2020

Easy State Loans Prompting Surge in Child Marriages in Iran

Child Marriages Rise Four-Fold as Parents Marry Off Their Children to Receive Loans Easily available loans provided by state-owned banks to cover marriage ...

November 13, 2020

State’s Online Schooling During COVID-19 Is a Privilege Only for the Well-Off in Iran

Teachers, Families and Students Struggle without Needed Technology in Iran’s Poorer Regions A new online schooling program created by the government to allow ...

September 11, 2020

Top UN Iran Expert Expresses “Alarm” at Iran’s “Unprecedented Violent Crackdown” against Protestors

Imprisonment of Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders, Juvenile Executions, Singled Out for Condemnation In the latest report by the UN’s top expert ...

July 30, 2020

UN Press Release: Bachelet Alarmed by Threats against Prominent Iranian NGO

Farsi Version (PDF) GENEVA (30 July 2020) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, ...

December 29, 2019

These Women and Men Inspired Us All

A grieving mother who vowed to continue pursuing her slain son’s pursuit of freedom. A housewife who lost her ...

November 20, 2019

Children in Iran Should Be Protected from Numerous Rights Violations

The age of criminal responsibility in Iran is 9 for girls and 15 for boys, despite international law that defines anyone under age 18 as a child ...

October 16, 2019

Reign of Evin Prison’s New Director Begins with Denial of Political Prisoners’ Rights

Female Prisoners of Conscience Denied Phone Contact with Children The appointment of Gholamreza Ziaei, former director of two disreputable prisons in Iran, as the ...

October 15, 2019

Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi Has Been Separated from Her Children for Five Years and Counting

Imprisoned human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has not been able to hold her two children since 2015, for nearly five years, her mother ...

October 11, 2019

Iran Must Confront Its Child Protection Crisis

On the International Day of the Girl Child, All States Urged to Address Needs of Girl Children Child Marriage, Lack of Protection against Abuse, Juvenile Executions Key Issues in Iran October 11, 2019—On the International Day ...

October 8, 2019

Education For All

Millions of children with disabilities in Iran are being denied education. Center for Human Rights in Iran & Human Rights Watch interviewed dozens of people in Iran with kids who’ve been denied school enrollment because they’ve been unjustly labeled as “uneducable.” ...

October 7, 2019

Children Born to Non-Iranian Fathers Win Right to File for Citizenship—With a Catch

Amendment Authorizes Intelligence Agencies to Investigate Applicants’ Parents Legislation granting a citizenship application option to Iranian children born to foreign ...

July 16, 2019

Fact Sheet: Children in Iran Are Unprotected from Abuse and Severe Rights Violations

July 16, 2019—At a time when international headlines are focused on Iran, little attention is given to the millions of children in the country who are subjected to a broad range of abuses and rights ...

May 17, 2019

New Legislation, If Approved, Will Give Citizenship Rights to Children Born to Iranian Women

In an important step to eliminate a fundamental and longstanding discriminatory restriction on Iranian women and their children, Iran’s Parliament overwhelmingly ...

May 9, 2019

Iran’s Education Minister Cracks Down on School Kids’ Dance Challenge

Iran’s minister of education has called on the police to trace the “source” of what he described as “disturbing videos” of schoolchildren cheerfully dancing to a pop song by US-based Iranian singer Sasy Mankan. The videos are part of an online “dance challenge” that features ...

May 9, 2019

Iran’s Minister of Education Sees “Plot” Behind Videos of Dancing Schoolchildren  

Iran’s minister of education has called on the police to trace the “source” of what he described as “disturbing videos” of ...

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Latest News

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    UN: Iran Must Halt Execution of Woman Survivor of Child Marriage and Abuse
    December 3, 2025
  • Eight Political Prisoners at Grave Risk of Execution as Death Sentences Upheld
    Eight Political Prisoners at Grave Risk of Execution as Death Sentences Upheld
    November 25, 2025
  • Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran
    Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran
    November 13, 2025
  • Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran
    Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran
    November 6, 2025
  • Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder
    Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder
    November 3, 2025
  • UN: Iran’s Surge in Unlawful Executions May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity
    UN: Iran’s Surge in Unlawful Executions May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity
    November 3, 2025
  • Iran’s Rappers: Voices of Dissent, Targets of the State
    Iran’s Rappers: Voices of Dissent, Targets of the State
    October 27, 2025
  • Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Highlights Plight of Religious and Political Prisoners in Iran
    Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Highlights Plight of Religious and Political Prisoners in Iran
    October 23, 2025
  • Iran’s New Tactics to Crush Mandatory Hijab Resistance: Business Raids and Surveillance
    Iran’s New Tactics to Crush Mandatory Hijab Resistance: Business Raids and Surveillance
    October 15, 2025
  • Iran’s Qarchak Prison: A Place of Death That Must Be Closed
    Iran’s Qarchak Prison: A Place of Death That Must Be Closed
    October 7, 2025
  • Three Years After Bloody Friday, Iran Shields Commanders Behind the Massacre of Over 100 Protesters
    Three Years After Bloody Friday, Iran Shields Commanders Behind the Massacre of Over 100 Protesters
    September 30, 2025
  • 45 Women Political Prisoners in Iran Blame Authorities for Death of Somayeh Rashidi After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care
    45 Women Political Prisoners in Iran Blame Authorities for Death of Somayeh Rashidi After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care
    September 25, 2025
  • Wave of Unlawful Arrests Targets Iran’s Minority Children 
    Wave of Unlawful Arrests Targets Iran’s Minority Children 
    September 24, 2025
  • Lives at Risk: An Urgent Call from Inside Evin Prison
    Lives at Risk: An Urgent Call from Inside Evin Prison
    September 22, 2025
  • Iran Intensifies Crackdown on Teachers: Dozens Arrested, Fired, or Sentenced for Peaceful Union Activity
    Iran Intensifies Crackdown on Teachers: Dozens Arrested, Fired, or Sentenced for Peaceful Union Activity
    September 17, 2025
  • ‘They see us as targets’: Iran’s Brutal Repression of Journalistic Freedom
    ‘They see us as targets’: Iran’s Brutal Repression of Journalistic Freedom
    September 3, 2025
  • UN Human Rights Chief Demands Iran Cease All Executions
    UN Human Rights Chief Demands Iran Cease All Executions
    September 2, 2025
  • Iran’s Destruction of Graves from 1980s State Massacres Must Be Condemned
    Iran’s Destruction of Graves from 1980s State Massacres Must Be Condemned
    August 26, 2025
  • Scores of Political Prisoners Will Be Executed in Iran Without an International Outcry
    Scores of Political Prisoners Will Be Executed in Iran Without an International Outcry
    August 21, 2025
  • Crushing Dissent Outside the Spotlight in Iran’s Provincial Cities
    Crushing Dissent Outside the Spotlight in Iran’s Provincial Cities
    August 12, 2025
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