Imprisonment of Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders, Juvenile Executions, Singled Out for Condemnation In the latest report by the UN’s top expert on Iran, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic ...
Farsi Version (PDF) GENEVA (30 July 2020) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said today she was alarmed by the Iranian Government’s increased pressure on a prominent civil society group working on ...
A grieving mother who vowed to continue pursuing her slain son’s pursuit of freedom. A housewife who lost her life while trying to save a victim of state violence. A prisoner of conscience who ...
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 ...
Female Prisoners of Conscience Denied Phone Contact with Children The appointment of Gholamreza Ziaei, former director of two disreputable prisons in Iran, as the new chief of Evin Prison on July 27, 2019, has been followed by ...
Imprisoned human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has not been able to hold her two children since 2015, for nearly five years, her mother Ozra Bazargan wrote in an open letter decrying the injustice her daughter is ...
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 of the ...
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.” ...
Amendment Authorizes Intelligence Agencies to Investigate Applicants’ Parents Legislation granting a citizenship application option to Iranian children born to foreign fathers was approved by the country’s legislative watchdog, the Guardian Council, on October 2, 2019. Four years in ...
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 violations, including ...
In an important step to eliminate a fundamental and longstanding discriminatory restriction on Iranian women and their children, Iran’s Parliament overwhelmingly ratified the “Granting Citizenship to Children Resulting from Marriage Between Iranian Women and Non-Iranian Men” on ...
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 ...
