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 ...

April 7, 2011

Report of UN Secretary General on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran at the Human Rights Council in Geneva

Report of the UN Secretary General - September 2010 Download PDF of this report United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council, Sixteenth session 28 March 2011 Document A/HRC/16/75 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and ...

April 1, 2011

Government Challenges UN Resolution As Rights Violations Continue

(1 April 2011) The Islamic Republic of Iran’s denunciation of a landmark United Nations Human Rights Council vote to appoint a human rights monitor, and leading politicians’ threats to deny the investigator access to the country, demonstrate the lack of cooperation with the international ...

April 23, 2010

“Does Iran Deserve to be on the UN Human Rights Council?”

(23 April 2010) Prominent Iranian human rights defenders and other members of civil society are calling on United Nations member states to soundly reject the Iranian government’s bid to become a member of the Human Rights Council. Despite Iran’s chronic neglect of international human rights, and ...