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United Nations

Reports of Special Rapporteurs

  • Promotion and Protection of all Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Including the Rights to Development (Asma Jahangir). (2007[1]) more...
  • Civil and Political Rights, Including the Question of Religious Intolerance (Asma Jahangir).(2006[2]) more...
  • Civil and Political Rights, Including Religious Intolerance (Abdelfattah Amor). (1999[3]) more..
  • Implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief (Abdelfattah Amor). (1995[4]) more...
  • Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living (Miloon Kothari). Addendum. Mission to the Islamic Republic of Iran. (2005[5]) more...
  • Civil and Political Rights, Including the Question of Freedom of Expression. Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression. (Ambeyi Ligabo). Addendum. Mission to the Islamic Republic of Iran. (2004[6]) more...
  • Civil and Political Rights, Including the Question of Torture and Detention. Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Addendum. Visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. (2003 [7]) more...
  • Committee on the Rights of the Child. Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under Article 44 of the Convention. Concluding observations: The Islamic Republic of Iran. (2005[8]) more...
  • Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under Article 9 of the Convention. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Islamic Republic of Iran. (2003[9]) more...

Resolutions

  • 29 October 2009 - Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (A/C.3/64/L.37)” Text of resolution.

Other reports

  • The situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Report of the Secretary General (2009) (UN Document #A/64/357). Full report.
  • Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief. more...
  • Human Rights Committee General Comment No. 22: The right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. more...
  • Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under Article 9 of the Convention. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Islamic Republic of Iran. (2003) more...
  • Final Report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights (Reynaldo Galindo Pohl).  (1993[1]) more...
  • Resolution 61/176 adopted by the General Assembly. Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran.  (2007[2]) more...

Notes:

[1] E/CN.4/1993/41 - 28 January 1993

[2] A/RES/61/176 – 1 March 2007

[3] E/CN.4/1999/58 - 11 January 1999

[4] E/CN.4/1996/95 – 15 December 1995

[5] E/CN.4/2006/41/Add.2 – 21 March 2006

[6] E/CN.4/2004/62/ADD.2 – 12 January 2004

[7] E/CN.4/2004/3/Add.2 - 27 June 2003

[8] CRC/C/15/Add.254 – 31 March 2005

[9] CERD/C/63/CO/6 - 10 December 2003

Government of the Islanmic Republic of Iran

Iranian document regarding Bahá'ís
Iranian Central Security memo banning Bahá'ís from universities.

 

  • Memo regarding “Banning of the education of Bahá’ís in universities” from the Director General of the Central Security Office of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mr. Asghar Zarei (2006).
  • Letter regarding “the Bahá'í question” from the Secretary of the Supreme Revolutionary Cultural Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr. Seyyed Mohammad Golpaygani. (25 February 1991)

Other Governments

 

  • 18 September 2009: Human Rights Council, 12th Session, Intervention under Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention; General Debate, the Netherlands
  • 18 September 2009: Human Rights Council, 12th Session, Intervention under Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention; General Debate, Canada
  • 18 September 2009: Human Rights Council, 12th Session, Intervention under Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention; General Debate, Austria
  • 18 September 2009: Human Rights Council, 12th Session, Intervention under Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention; General Debate, Ireland
  • 18 September 2009: Human Rights Council, 12th Session, Intervention under Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention; General Debate, Denmark
  • 18 September 2009: Human Rights Council, 12th Session, Intervention under Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention; General Debate, Luxembourg
  • 18 September 2009: Human Rights Council, 12th Session, Intervention under Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention; General Debate, Australia
  • 18 September 2009: Human Rights Council, 12th Session, Intervention under Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention; General Debate, Germany
  • 18 September 2009: Human Rights Council, 12th Session, Intervention under Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention; General Debate, New Zealand
  • 21 May 2008: Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union more...
  • 16 May 2008: Statement by the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs more...
  • 15 May 2008: Press statement by the United States Department of State more...

US State Department Human Rights Reports

  • 2006 Report on Human Rights practices - Iran
  • 2006 Report on Human Rights practices - Egypt
  • 2005 Report on Human Rights practices - Iran
  • 2005 Report on Human Rights practices - Egypt

US Commission on International Religious Freedom

 

NGOs

2010

  • Human Rights Watch: End Persecution of Bahá'ís (23 February 2010), view press release.

2009

  • Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH): Iran/death penalty: A state terror policy (April 2009), view report.

2008

  • Amnesty International: Iran: Arbitrary arrests/Prisoners of conscience (15 May 2008), view update.
  • Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH): Continuous repression against the Baha'i community in the Islamic Republic of Iran (29 May 2008), view press release.
  • Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme and Human Rights Watch (FIDH): Open letter to President Ahmadinejad on Situation of Baha'i Detainees (1 June 2008), view open letter. [Persian]
  • International Commission of Jurists: Iran – ICJ calls on Iranian authorities to cease harassment of Baha'i faith leaders (2 June 2008), view  press release.

2007

  • Minority rights Group International: State of the World's Minorities 2007 (4 March 2007), view publication.
  • Human Rights Watch: Iran: Allow Baha'i Students Access to Higher Education (20 September 2007), view press release.

2006

  • Minority rights Group International: State of the World's Minorities 2006 (22 December 2005), view publication.

2005

  • Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH): Let the Bahá'ís Study! (15 December 2005), view petition.

2003

  • Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH): Discrimination against religious minorities in Iran (August 2003), view report.
  • 2 June 2008: Press release by the International Commission of Jurists more...
  • 1 June 2008: Open letter by the FIDH (Fédération Internationale des droits de l’homme) and Human Rights Watch to Iranian President Ahmadinejad on Situation of Baha'i Detainees more...
  • 29 May 2008: Press release by FIDH more...
  • 15 May 2008 : Amnesty International update more...
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