December 16, 2019

23 Rights Organizations Urge UN to Take “Urgent Action” on Iran Protest Deaths

December 16, 2019 -- A coalition of international human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran has called on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to launch an independent inquiry and demand accountability for ...

November 12, 2018

40 Civil Society Organizations Urge UN to Support Resolution on Human Rights in Iran

Forty civil society organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) have signed a letter urging UN member states to support Canada's resolution on human rights in Iran that will be presented to the Third ...

October 30, 2018

UN Expert Says Human Rights Should Be at the Heart of the Response to Challenges Faced in Iran

Javaid Rehman was appointed as the third Special Rapporteur ...

November 14, 2017

Tehran Governor Pleased With His Imaginary Tolerance of Peaceful Protests

The governor of Tehran Province, Mohammad Hossein Moghimi, has erroneously declared that since President Hassan Rouhani took office in 2013, protests in Iran’s capital city have been tolerated without the use of force ...

December 2, 2009

UN General Assembly Resolution on Situation of Human Rights in Iran – November 2009

Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran The General Assembly, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the International Covenants on Human Rights2 and other international human rights instruments, Recalling its previous resolutions on the ...