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Rights Lawyer Says Iran Needs Existing Laws Enforced, not a New Charter

Rights Lawyer Says Iran Needs Existing Laws Enforced, not a New Charter

January 3, 2014

Lawyer and member of the Defenders of Human Rights Center Mahnaz Parakand discussed necessary steps for implementing human rights protections in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “Before thinking to design a Citizenship Rights Charter, we must implement the Iranian Constitution, even with all its shortcomings. Many of the articles ...

Rights Lawyer Says Citizenship Rights Charter Is “Distraction”

Rights Lawyer Says Citizenship Rights Charter Is “Distraction”

January 3, 2014

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, lawyer Khalil Bahramian, who has represented many political prisoners, said the draft Citizenship Rights Charter is just a distraction for the public. ...

Rouhani Delivered on Rights Charter Promise “Immediately,” but Issue Is with Implementation, Says Lawyer

Rouhani Delivered on Rights Charter Promise “Immediately,” but Issue Is with Implementation, Says Lawyer

January 2, 2014

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, lawyer Farideh Gheirat said that the draft Citizenship Rights Charter presented by Hassan Rouhani in November is almost exactly like the Iranian Constitution in substance, just with different phrasing. Gheirat added that there was no need to draft a new Charter that was ...

Guardian Council May Approve Citizenship Rights Charter, Says Lawyer

Guardian Council May Approve Citizenship Rights Charter, Says Lawyer

January 2, 2014

President Hassan Rouhani’s draft Citizenship Rights Charter, currently before the Guardian Council, may win approval, lawyer and head of the National Iranian Bar Associations Union Bahman Keshavarz told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Draft Citizenship Charter Will Allow Continued Rights Violations say Human Rights Groups

Draft Citizenship Charter Will Allow Continued Rights Violations say Human Rights Groups

December 27, 2013

In a letter addressed to Hassan Rouhani, Iran's President, Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed appreciation for the draft Citizenship Rights Charter, but expressed deep concern over the consultation and preparation phases of the draft, its contents, and ...

Police Shoot and Kill Two Kurdish Citizens, Injure a Third

Police Shoot and Kill Two Kurdish Citizens, Injure a Third

November 20, 2013

In the week between November 8 and November 15, Iranian police killed two Kurdish citizens in the border region areas of Nosood in Kermanshah Province and Baneh in Kurdistan Province, allegedly as part of an effort to fight the smuggling of goods. Some residents of the region have expressed their outrage by closing their businesses, ...

UN Shows Strong Support for Human Rights in Iran with 83-to-36 Vote

UN Shows Strong Support for Human Rights in Iran with 83-to-36 Vote

November 19, 2013

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee vote today overwhelmingly supporting human rights in Iran, and urges the Iranian government to comply with UN human rights mechanisms and take concrete steps to address the ongoing violations in the country. ...

25 NGOs Urge UN Third Committee to Pass Iran Human Rights Resolution

25 NGOs Urge UN Third Committee to Pass Iran Human Rights Resolution

November 15, 2013

As the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee prepares to vote on the resolution on the promotion and protection of human rights in Iran, 25 human rights organizations have joined together to urge member states to vote in favor of the resolution. ...

XIII International Human Rights Colloquium

XIII International Human Rights Colloquium

October 18, 2013

Over 100 human rights advocates from 40 countries are convening in São Paulo, Brazi, from October 12 to 19, to discuss “A New Global Order in Human Rights? Actors, Challenges and Opportunities” at the 13th International Human Rights Colloquium organized by Conectas Human Rights. This post will be updated regularly throughout the conference. ...

House of Cinema Reopens in Tehran

House of Cinema Reopens in Tehran

September 12, 2013

Following a bitter struggle during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s tenure culminating in its closure, Iran’s House of Cinema reopened today in Tehran, with hundreds of jubilant cinema folks in attendance. The reopening was welcomed by many who see it as delivery on one of the many promises Hassan Rouhani made during his presidential election campaign. ...

Fulfilling Promises: A Human Rights Roadmap for Rouhani

Fulfilling Promises: A Human Rights Roadmap for Rouhani

August 21, 2013

During his 2013 presidential campaign, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani promised to uphold the “rights of the people” enumerated in the country’s constitution. Millions of his supporters demanded social and political rights, including the release of political prisoners from prison and house arrest. In this ...

Rouhani Should Honor Voters’ Demand for Human Rights

Rouhani Should Honor Voters’ Demand for Human Rights

August 21, 2013

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani should take concrete steps to curb widespread human rights abuses by the government of Iran and reinstate the rule of law in the country, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

Security Forces Closely Watch Osanloo’s Memorial Service

Security Forces Closely Watch Osanloo’s Memorial Service

August 2, 2013

The 40th-day memorial service for labor activist Afshin Osanloo, who died on June 20 of what prison authorities announced as “a heart attack,” was held at Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery, under the close watch and direction of a large number of security forces. Afshin Osanloo’s mother told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran ...

Osanloo’s Family Calls for Investigation Into His Prison Death

Osanloo’s Family Calls for Investigation Into His Prison Death

June 26, 2013

The family of deceased prisoner of conscience Afshin Osanloo has requested that the Medical Examiner investigate his cause of death, his sister told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Osanloo’s official cause of death on June 20, 2013, has been listed as a heart attack, but his sister Fereshteh Osanloo said he did ...

Reading Marx in Tehran (New York Times)

Reading Marx in Tehran (New York Times)

June 14, 2013

Iran’s presidential election on June 14 will be neither free nor fair. ...

UN Committee Finds Widespread Discrimination Against Baha’is in Iran

UN Committee Finds Widespread Discrimination Against Baha’is in Iran

May 24, 2013

In a report issued May 21, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights found that Baha’is face “widespread and entrenched discrimination” in Iran, particularly in employment and education. The report also covered several other pressing human rights issues in Iran, including discrimination against women and ethnic minorities, as well as the lack of ...

UN Human Rights Council Overwhelmingly Votes to Renew Iran Mandate

UN Human Rights Council Overwhelmingly Votes to Renew Iran Mandate

March 22, 2013

(March 22, 2013) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 26 to 2 vote to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran for the third consecutive year. The Campaign also urged Iranian authorities to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur ...

Cartoon 48: Nowruz 1392

Cartoon 48: Nowruz 1392

March 19, 2013

As Iranians around the world prepare to celebrate the new year, hundreds of prisoners of conscience remain behind bars in Iran. The Persian New Year, Nowruz, is the most important holiday in Iran, beginning at the moment of the vernal equinox. While the news website Kaleme reports that a dozen political prisoners have been granted ...

Special Rapporteur’s March 2013 report on the situation of human rights in Iran

Special Rapporteur’s March 2013 report on the situation of human rights in Iran

March 13, 2013

The present report is the second to be submitted to the Human Rights Council, pursuant to Council resolution 16/9, and communicates developments in the human rights situation of the Islamic Republic of Iran that have transpired since the submission of the Special Rapporteur’s second interim report to the 67th session of the General Assembly (A/67/369) ...

Abdol-Karim Lahidji: Mortazavi Deserves Arrest for Prior Brutality

Abdol-Karim Lahidji: Mortazavi Deserves Arrest for Prior Brutality

February 7, 2013

Former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi should be prosecuted for his role in prisoners’ deaths, not political score-settling, prominent lawyer Abdol-Karim Lahidji told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Mortazavi, currently the head of Iran’s Social Security Organization, was arrested Tuesday and detained for 24 hours following a public exposé by President Ahmadinejad during ...

(Legal Analysis): Children Illegally Counted in Inflated Iranian Labor Statistics

(Legal Analysis): Children Illegally Counted in Inflated Iranian Labor Statistics

January 19, 2013

According to statistics released in the summer of 2012, the rate of economic participation of children between the ages of 10 and 14 was stated as 2.9% (page 35 of the report). According to the definitions supplied in the report (page 18), Economic Participation indicates the ratio of those active in this age group compared ...

“Allow My Husband Medical Furlough,” Asks Union Activist Reza Shahabi’s Wife

“Allow My Husband Medical Furlough,” Asks Union Activist Reza Shahabi’s Wife

January 3, 2013

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Robabeh Rezaei, the wife of imprisoned labor activist Reza Shahabi, spoke about her husband’s hunger strike in protest of the prison authorities’ refusal to allow him medical treatment outside. “On Monday, December 24, when I visited with Reza through a booth, he wasn’t ...

Mapping Iran’s Human Rights (Interactive)

Mapping Iran’s Human Rights (Interactive)

December 18, 2012

Mapping Iran’s Human Rights, an ongoing project of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, highlights and explores major human rights violations in different provinces of Iran, beyond Tehran’s borders. Given this geographical overview of human rights violations, you can monitor human rights trends, learn about notorious prisons, keep tabs on Iranian officials who ...

UN Resolution Intensifies International Pressure on Iran

UN Resolution Intensifies International Pressure on Iran

November 27, 2012

(November 27, 2012) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes today’s passage of a resolution by the United Nations Third Committee of the General Assembly calling on the government of Iran to stop its massive human rights violations. ...

Cartoon 4:  Iran’s Border Burdens

Cartoon 4: Iran’s Border Burdens

May 4, 2012

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