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 ...
A year after Parliament ratified the Law for the Protection of the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, the Iranian government has approved only a tenth of the budget proposed by the State Welfare Organization (SWO) ...
Amendment Requires Guardian Council’s Approval After years of advocacy efforts by defenders of the rights of people with disabilities in Iran, the country’s Parliament has voted to pass an amendment that, if approved by the ...
The mother of two autistic sons says there was no ...
A December 2018 meeting between disability rights activist and the head of ...
“If I had a [state-provided] nurse to help me with personal daily chores, I would not have encountered so much violence.” “Sometimes my ex-husband hit me so harshly that I fell from my ...
Law for the Protection of the Rights of Disabled Persons Requires Designated Funding Current Budgetary Allocations Will Not Allow Implementation of Many Measures December 1, 2018--Iran should fulfill its responsibility to fully implement its ...
September 25, 2018—On the occasion of the International Day of Sign Languages and International Week of the Deaf, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the Iranian government to officially recognize sign language and ...
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 ...
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 ...
As Iran’s State Welfare Organization (SWO) marked its 38th birthday, several people with disabilities based in the country told the Center for Human Rights in Iran ...
There's a new and growing conversation about disability rights in Iran. Here are 10 ways we can treat people with disabilities as equals and with respect. We all have a ...
Guardian council meeting Iran’s Guardian Council has rejected a proposed bill that would make it a legal right for people living with disabilities ...
With only two opposing votes, Iran’s Parliament has overwhelmingly passed the outlines of a bill designed to better protect the rights of people living with disabilities in the country. The lawmakers voted in ...
