Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Stages Sit-In
October 21, 2014
Newsletter
October 31, 2014
Arseh Sevom — Iran faces its 4-year universal periodic review (UPR) of its efforts to improve the human rights situation in the country. On October 31, in Geneva, Iran will be reviewed. The UPR will be held from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm, Central Europe Time. Human rights groups have noted that Iran has not kept the promises it made at its last review. For years now, Iran has come second only to China in the sheer number of executions. That number has only increased over the past few years. The day before the meeting, Iran Human Rights Review released its most recent issue on the UN.
In her introduction to this issue, Tahirih Danesh writes:
For all the flaws of the UN system set out here and by other contributors, the UN remains the only international body that is able to exercise direct influence on human rights issues that maintains the, if sometimes grudging, participation of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Therefore it provides an important mechanism for civil society, be it international, diasporan and, where possible, based in Iran, to hold the IRI government to account against its international commitments and domestic constitutional obligations.
The table of contents of this issue is as follows:
The question that my interrogator asked by Hossein Rassam
Iran: Human rights and cultural wrongs by Ali Ansari
Iranian minority rights: A case study of the UN human rights machinery by Daniel Wheatley
Iran and human rights organs of the United Nations by Raha Shadan
A rising tide lifts all boats: Human rights in Iran, cooperating for change by Tori Egherman
The Iran Tribunal: Establishing an alternative history of human rights abuses by Pardis Shafafi
Equality for women means progress for all by Elahe Amani
Iran: The use of the death penalty for drug-related offences as a tool of political control by Taimoor Aliassi
Human rights in Iran and at the United Nations by Hassan Nayeb Hashem
