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Tag : special rapporteur on human rights for iran

March 14, 2016

Why the UN Human Rights Mechanisms Must Continue to Monitor Iran’s Human Rights Situation

This video explains why it is so imperative that the United Nations Human Rights Council ensures the Special Rapporteur and other UN mechanisms continue their critical work of monitoring Iran’s human rights situation, given the severe rights violations that persist in Iran and Tehran’s refusal ...

July 29, 2015

Iran’s State Media Launches Yet Another Attack on U.N. Special Rapporteur

Allegations against Dr. Ahmed Shaheed Unsubstantiated and Questioned by WikiLeaks Ever desperate to discredit the work and person of UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed, news agencies in Iran run by the ...

March 17, 2014

UN Members Strongly Criticize Executions and Lack of Basic Freedoms in Iran

At Monday’s meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed presented his report on the situation of human rights in Iran. Following his presentation, representatives of member countries, NGOs, and the Iranian delegation offered their responses. ...

March 13, 2014

UN Rapporteur Slams Iran for Lack of Judiciary Independence and Execution Surge

For his research the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran interviewed more than 130 individuals in Iran and outside Iran who provided testimonies about human rights abuses, and received written reports from human ...

September 14, 2011

Hold Ahmadinejad Accountable for Iran’s Human Rights Crisis During UN Visit

(14 September 2011) Member states of the United Nations as well as the international media should focus on the ongoing human rights crisis in Iran as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York to attend the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, the ...

June 23, 2011

“No,” Says Head of Iran’s Judiciary to Special Rapporteur on Human Rights

Only a few weeks after the United Nation’s Human Rights Council appointed Maldivian Ahmed Shaheed as UN’s Special Rapporteur on human rights for Iran, the Head of Iran’s Judiciary, Sadegh Larijani, made public statements denying access to the Special Rapporteur. “Our policy is not to ...

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