Iran's Charter of Citizens' Rights could worsen religious freedom in the country

Religious New Service

An interview by Brian Pellot with Nazila Ghanea, who teaches international human rights law at the University of Oxford. Dr. Ghanea says Iran's new draft Charter of Citizen's Rights does very little in terms of actually protecting human rights and is mainly for public relations purposes. "Despite the charter being extensive, there’s no hint of it going beyond the Iranian constitution, which unfortunately contains discriminatory provisions," she said.

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