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 ...
Public transportation, roads, and buildings are frequently inaccessible in Iran, leading to increased accidents and isolation for people with disabilities. News of severe injuries sustained by a blind man who fell ...
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 ...
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 UN held a conference focused on improving access ...
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 ...
Bill Languishing for Years, While Women Are Abused with Impunity Women with Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Groups Face Heightened Risk of Abuse November 23, 2018—The Iranian authorities must bring legislation protecting women from domestic violence that has ...
In April 2018, Iran’s ...
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 ...
A bill in the final stages of Iran’s legislative process addresses the country’s legal vacuum regarding the abuse of children with disabilities but includes loopholes that put those children at risk, according to experts. Article 3 of ...
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 ...
Iran’s Education Ministry is violating Iranian law and the country’s commitments to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities (CRPD) with job application requirements that prevent ...
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 ...
Iran saw the opening of Downtism Café, the country’s first café staffed by people living with disabilities including down syndrome and autism, on May 1, 2018. “Certainly these ...
A popular exhibition by the Louvre Museum in Paris at the National Museum of Iran has come under criticism because it is inaccessible to people living ...
