September 02, 2024 GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed alarm over a surge in executions during the month of August 2024 and urged the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately stop the execution of people facing the death penalty. At least 81 individuals were executed in August, twice as many …
Read More »Press release on protests in Iran
Mass protests against price liberalization and the government’s indifference to the living conditions of the country’s people, which began in recent days in several cities of Khuzestan province, have spread to several other Iranian provinces. Demonstrators are protesting against rising food prices and demanding the resignation of Iran’s religious …
Read More »Turkey must stop attacks on Iraqi territory and the Federal Kurdistan Region of Iraq!
Turkish troops have once again and extensively attacked the northern regions of Iraq and the federal region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The attacks, which started a few days ago with the bombing of some areas, continue. The Turkish army’s air and ground forces are involved in these attacks, and the pretext …
Read More »Civil society participation at the UN Human Rights Council cannot be an afterthought
We have consistently raised our concerns that the special emergency measures and ongoing budget constraints adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2019 and 2020, coupled with measures adopted to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, have heavily restricted civil society participation at the HRC. Given that civic space …
Read More »Appeal to the international community to end the violence against the Kurdish people in Iran!
According to local sources in Iranian Kurdistan, in recent days dozens of civil society activists, environmental activists and students have been arrested in various towns in Kurdistan by security agencies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The escalation of arrests coincides with increasing losses caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, economic …
Read More »Participation in an online meeting with the participation of the United Nations Special Report on Minority Issues!
We took part in a meeting called “Nations under military occupation”, organized with the participation of Dr Fernand de Varennes RP, the Special Rapporteur on minority issues. Through this link you can see the meeting that took place on January 14, 2021. This meeting was moderated by Dr. Paul Newman …
Read More »Call to place Afrin under International Protection
“45 Syrian and international organizations call on bringing an end to the suffering of residents in Afrin, ending daily human rights violations and facilitating a safe return of the forcibly displaced population. We also call for the formation of a civilian council consisting of the local population of Afrin”. On …
Read More »Report of the United Nations Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
United Nations A/HRC/43/20 General Assembly Distr.: General 17 January 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February–20 March 2020 Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Situation of human …
Read More »United Nations – Geneva : Syria war: executions condemned as violence continues ‘on both sides’ of border with Turkey.
15 October 2019 Amid ongoing fighting in northern Syria and disturbing reports that extrajudicial killings have been streamed online, the United Nations and their partners are continuing to deliver humanitarian supplies to tens of thousands of people displaced by the violence, UN agencies stressed on Tuesday. Briefing journalists …
Read More »Oral Statement of Representative of Iran on the Rights of Minorities in Iran
The 10th session of U.N. Forum on Minority
Read More »Press release on the execution of a Kurdish political prisoner in Iran!
Iranian officials have informed the family of the Kurdish political prisoner Mansour Arvand, that was executed Sunday, June 14, 2015. Mansour Arvand was arrested in his home, in June 2011, and sentenced to death by the first of the Revolutionary Court in Mahabad (a Kurdish city in West Azerbaijan province …
Read More »The Side-Event on situation of Iranian national and religious Groups
On the 13 of June, on the occasion of the 26th session of the Human Rights Council meeting in the Palais des Nations in Geneva, it has been organized a Side-Event on Situation of national, ethnics and religious Minorities, one year after the Selection of Mr. Hassan Rohani (as a …
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