October 2, 2019

Children With Disabilities in Iran Denied Access to Inclusive Education

Iran's Government Should Allow Kids With Disabilities to Be Educated Alongside Their Peers October 2, 2019 – Children with disabilities face discrimination and significant barriers in getting an education in Iran, Human Rights Watch and the Center for Human ...

July 16, 2019

Iranian State Officials Use Derogatory Language against People with Disabilities

Stigmatization of Disability Perpetuated by Widespread Use of Insulting Language Despite years of effort by disability rights activists and NGOs to change societal biases about disabilities and protect the dignity of this community, governmental authorities in Iran continue ...

September 6, 2018

Welfare Reps Presence Required at Job Interviews for People with Disabilities

New Requirement Meant to Address Employment Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities In response to criticism that persons with disabilities are not getting three percent of jobs allocated to them by law, Iran’s ...

August 22, 2018

Iranian Law Should Allow People With Disabilities to Make Their Own Legal Decisions

Ten years after Iran’s Parliament ratified the UN’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the government has failed to implement effective measures to enable individuals with disabilities ...

May 16, 2018

Iran: Little Progress to Show UN on Disability Rights

Iran is facing a looming deadline to present its response to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) a year after the UN body gave the Iranian government three recommendations for upholding and ...