February 22, 2018

UN Should Keep Engaging Iran on Its Human Rights Record by Renewing Special Rapporteur’s Mandate

A Session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Rights Violations Continue Under President Rouhani’s Watch February 22, 2018 — Iran’s deteriorating human rights record requires the UN Human Rights Council to renew ...

October 26, 2017

UN Special Rapporteur: Despite “Encouraging Signs,” Human Rights Deteriorating in Iran

Asma Jahangir, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In presenting ...

August 10, 2015

Three Hanged in Public in Karaj

Three people found guilty of rape were executed in public in the Golshahr neighborhood of the Iranian city ...

November 21, 2011

UN Resolution Ramps Up Cross-Regional International Pressure on Iran’s Human Rights Crisis

(21 November 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomed the resolution concerning Iran’s grave human rights violations, adopted today by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (GA). “We embrace the adoption of this resolution and encourage UN member states ...

September 22, 2011

“Stop Executions,” Four UN Human Rights Experts Tell Iran

On 22 September 2011 four United Nations Special Rapporteurs for executions, torture, human rights in Iran, and independence of the judiciary, issued a joint statement condemning Iran’s recent execution of a juvenile ...