The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) is an unbiased, non-partisan, non-profit group dedicated to defending and selling human rights in Iran. Headquartered in New York, CHRI is comprised of award-winning journalists, researchers, attorneys, activists, writers, multimedia specialists, and advocates based mostly all over the world working to help the basic rights and freedoms of the Iranian folks.
CHRI obtained over 7,000 worldwide media citations in 2022. In 2022, CHRI printed a whole bunch of articles on human rights points and press releases on pressing developments in each English and Persian, distributing them on to over 4,000 authorities, UN, NGO and media leaders all over the world. CHRI’s in-depth reviews are a complete supply of in-depth data and evaluation on crucial human rights points. CHRI reality sheets spotlight data on key human rights points in a concise, accessible format. CHRI reaches over 1 million folks month-to-month via social media in Persian and English (Facebook, Persian Twitter, English TwitterPersian Instagram, English Instagram) Center for analysis and documentation
Relying on major sources and an in depth community in Iranian civil society, the Center investigates and paperwork human rights violations all through Iran, and investigates and reviews on circumstances and problems with pressing concern. Our work covers areas corresponding to freedom of expression, the appropriate to protest, web freedom, due course of and honest trial, political prisoners, girls’s and youngsters’s rights, labor points, and minority rights.
Thought Leadership and Policy Guidance
The Center’s analysis findings are printed in analytical articles and commentaries in main journals corresponding to Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, in addition to complete reviews offering in-depth data and evaluation on key human rights points. The analysis findings are disseminated to greater than 4,000 leaders in governments, the United Nations, assume tanks, tutorial establishments, NGOs, and the media all over the world, with the goal of constructing data and broadening debate amongst professional communities and growing a more practical world response to human rights violations in Iran.
The Center additionally produces detailed coverage briefs for presidency officers within the U.S. and overseas and holds common conferences to temporary policymakers and specialists, offering knowledgeable, unbiased evaluation of rights points, their impacts, and coverage suggestions.
International Advocacy
The Center works with governments all over the world to advance human rights efforts and is the United Nations’ major supply of knowledge, evaluation and proposals on Iran. It repeatedly submits main reviews to UN our bodies and briefs UN professional groups, and has been cited in additional UN reviews on Iran than every other group. Through its work, it identifies problems with concern, provides Iranian human rights defenders a voice within the worldwide neighborhood, and advances UN efforts on human rights points.
Media Outreach
The Center alerts the media to occasions and points, supplies background data, conducts in-depth interviews, and writes op-ed items for publications that attain hundreds of thousands of individuals.
Arts, Culture and Society
The Center’s arts, tradition, and social packages present a platform for underrepresented creative voices and promote freedom of expression, intercultural understanding, and tolerance, corresponding to its 2019-2020 New York City artwork exhibition “A Bridge Between You and Everything,” curated by famend artist Shirin Neshat and showcasing over 100 works by 14 outstanding Iranian girls artists, in addition to internet hosting a panel dialogue on creative freedom at New York University’s prestigious Grey Art Museum.
Our Approach
The Centre’s method is non-partisan and non-political and it operates inside the framework of human rights regulation.
The Center’s Accomplishments: Led the advocacy marketing campaign for the creation of a UN Special Rapporteur’s mission on human rights in Iran Helped reform Iran’s draconian dying penalty legal guidelines, saving hundreds of lives every year Achieved stays on executions for juvenile offenders and different criminals Exposed state violence towards protesters and detainees Advances vital laws on girls’s and youngsters’s rights Enhanced web entry and safety for a whole bunch of hundreds of Iranians Achieved the discharge of political prisoners, healthcare, and household go away Raised public consciousness of the discrimination confronted by non secular and ethnic minorities in Iran Launched groundbreaking advocacy for folks with disabilities How can I study extra about CHRI?