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Tag : un human rights council

December 14, 2022

Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women

Two Major UN Votes Signal World’s Revulsion at Islamic Republic’s Violence against Protesters December 14, 2022 – The vote today by the UN Economic and Social Council to remove the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Commission on the Status ...

November 30, 2022

Iran Protests: Juveniles Could Face Death Penalty in Kangaroo “Revolutionary” Court

Governments, UN Must Take Urgent Action to Protect Them November 30, 2022 – At least three juveniles are among 15 individuals in the Iranian city of Karaj who are facing charges that could carry the death penalty in Iran’s ...

November 21, 2022

Iran Protests: Massacre in Kurdish Areas Feared as Security Forces Launch Lethal Crackdown

Authorities Shut Down Internet to Prevent Evidence of State’s Atrocities from Reaching Outside World November 21, 2022 – With Iranian security forces launching a massive assault on protesters in Kurdish-populated cities in Iran, and mounting deaths ...

October 24, 2022

Iran Protests: State Trying to Crush Dissent Through More Killings, Imprisonment

Prominent Teachers, Labor Leaders Slapped with Jail Time as 500+ Face Sham Charges October 24, 2022 – The sentencing of prominent teachers and labor rights advocates to prison in Iran amid a violent crackdown on protests that has ...

October 21, 2022

Briefing: Addressing State Atrocities Against Protesters in Iran

Recommendations for the U.S. Government and the International Community View a PDF version of this briefing here. View this briefing's press release here. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since the September 16, 2022, killing of 22-year-old Mahsa ...

October 17, 2022

Joint Statement: 43 Rights Groups Call for Urgent Action on Iran at UN Human Rights Council

Forty-three human rights groups, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), today urged the UN Human Rights Council to urgently hold a special session that should establish an independent mechanism with ...

March 10, 2022

Plea to UN to Demand Freedom for Gravely Ill Sepideh Qoliyan

Fears Mount for Young Activist Who is Being Denied Crucial Medical Treatment March 10, 2022 – Two months after two political prisoners died in Iranian state custody, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has ...

July 19, 2021

Rights Groups: Iranian Dissidents Remain at Risk Worldwide Without International Action

July 19, 2021—In a joint statement released today, 10 human rights groups, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, urged the international community to hold Iranian authorities accountable for their ongoing campaigns of persecution against Iranian ...

September 9, 2020

22 Rights Organizations Call for UN-Led Inquiry Into Repression of Iran’s November 2019 Protests

A session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Urgent Need for Accountabilty After “Brutal Campaign of Mass Repression by the Iranian Authorities” A coalition of international rights organizations, including the Center for Human ...

January 9, 2020

UN Experts Call on Iran to Release Detained Protesters

 Iran's judiciary should free all women and men who were arbitrarily detained as state forces violently repressed street protests this past November, said a group ...

February 27, 2019

New UN Report on Iran Notes Decline in Executions, Ongoing Executions of Child Offenders

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

October 1, 2018

New UN Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman Requests Entry to Iran

UN SRs on Human Rights Banned From Visiting Since 2005 The new special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, has requested that Iran break its 13-year ban on ...

March 12, 2018

Iran Should Stop Persecuting BBC Journalists and Threatening Their Families

Ongoing harassment of BBC Persian staff continues despite repeated UN criticism March 12, 2017—The UN should take immediate action on an appeal by the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) urging the Human Rights Council to protect journalists from an escalating campaign of ...

March 18, 2014

Left Behind By Iranian Delegation in Geneva, Larijani Attacks the UN from Tehran

Mohammad Javad Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary's Human Rights Council, held a press conference in Tehran today attacking the UN Human Rights Council, the Secretary General, and the Special Rapporteur for their reports ...

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 15, 2014

“Personal attacks on UN Officials Show Iranians Not Free to Express Opinions,” Says Ahmed Shaheed

Ahmed Shaheed asked the Iranian Government to allow him to visit the country so that he can have discussions with the government and the civil society in order ...

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 ...

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

Human Rights Community Prevails in Forcing Withdrawal of Iran’s Candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council

(24 April 2010) The withdrawal of Iran’s candidacy for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, which was vociferously opposed by Iranian civil society leaders and human rights community, is a victory for Iranian citizens whose human rights would very likely have suffered ...

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 ...

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