Iran and worldwide human rights organizations referred to as on the Member States of the United Nations Human Rights Council to resume the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights within the Islamic Republic of Iran and prolong the mandate of the unbiased worldwide physique. Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) on the fifty fifth session of the Human Rights Council. In a joint letter, the 2 organizations acknowledged that the continuation of two distinct and complementary missions is crucial for the Security Council to satisfy its mandate to advertise and shield human rights in Iran.
A letter follows.
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To Member States of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Your Honor,
We, the undersigned Iranian and worldwide human rights organizations, request your nation to resume the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights within the Islamic Republic of Iran and the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights within the Islamic Republic of Iran. We urge you to help the extension of The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) speaks on the fifty fifth session of the Human Rights Council. Continuing these two distinct and complementary missions is crucial for the Security Council to satisfy its mandate to advertise and shield human rights in Iran.
We additionally name in your authorities to make use of this chance to publicly sound the alarm on the gross and chronic human rights violations being dedicated on this nation. Some of those, the FFMI decided, “consisted of crimes in opposition to humanity…dedicated as a part of a widespread and systematic assault.” We demand an finish to those violations and demand justice, fact and reparations for civilians – ladies, women and others who stand for human rights.
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At this convention, the Security Council will as soon as once more be offered with a big physique of proof demonstrating the persevering with disaster of systemic impunity, whereby crimes underneath worldwide legislation and different human rights violations go unpunished inside international locations. These embody widespread violations of the correct to life, the correct to be free from torture and different ill-treatment, the safety and liberty of individuals, truthful trials, efficient treatments, and freedom of faith, perception, and expression. The rights to peaceable meeting and affiliation, the rights to privateness, well being, schooling, livelihood, and work, as detailed within the appendix to this letter.
Women and women proceed to be handled as second-class residents amid a rising crackdown on violations of degrading and abusive obligatory veiling legal guidelines. Lesbian, homosexual, bi, transgender, and intersex individuals, in addition to ethnic and spiritual minorities, are additionally topic to systematic discrimination. Targets embody Ahwazi Arabs, Azerbaijani Turks, Baluchis, Kurds, and Turkmens. An individual who belongs to a non secular or persuasive minority, similar to Baha’is, Christians, Gonabadi Dervishes, Jews, Yarsanis (Ahl-e-Haq), Sunni Muslims, and atheists.
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FFMI’s mandate, established following the custodial dying of Mahsa Zina Amini, is to deal with violations dedicated throughout the 2022 nationwide protests, with a selected give attention to ladies and youngsters. It additionally stays necessary to make sure that the Not solely do violations associated to the 2022 protests proceed to reverberate inside Iran, however this obligation additionally performs an necessary position in addressing the impunity that fuels these and different human rights abuses. There is.
As famous above, crimes underneath worldwide legislation associated to the 2022 protests proceed. Thousands of individuals, together with youngsters, have been subjected to abusive interrogation, arbitrary detention, unjust prosecution, suspension of schooling or employment, or expulsion for peacefully exercising their human rights. Intelligence and safety companies proceed to focus on households of these unlawfully killed throughout protests, searching for fact and justice for the murders of their family members. At least 9 individuals have been arbitrarily executed in reference to protests following grossly unfair trials. In January 2024, UN consultants strongly condemned the execution of Mohammad Ghobadr and stated that a minimum of 4 individuals reportedly stay at imminent threat of execution in reference to nationwide protests. and a minimum of 15 others are dealing with the dying penalty. Meanwhile, impunity continues, with an neutral, unbiased and efficient No home investigation has been carried out.
As the Council emphasised in a decision final yr, “persistent and systematic impunity for gross human rights violations and an absence of accountability… creates a positive setting for perpetrators and for victims to obtain efficient redress.” violates individuals’s rights and perpetuates a cycle of violence.” This widespread scenario of human rights violations and impunity for worldwide crimes have to be addressed to forestall previous patterns of violations from being repeated sooner or later. Only unbiased legislation enforcement companies with the suitable sources, personnel and time can adequately deal with this basic problem. It is evident that FFMI has an necessary position to play on this regard.
In line with its mission, FFMI locations the scenario of ladies and women on the heart of its analysis. The report states that crimes in opposition to humanity – gender-based persecution – are dedicated in Iran, and that there’s a “pervasive, deep-seated structural and institutionalized assault in opposition to ladies and women that permeates all areas of private and non-private life.” concluded that “discrimination” was going down. It is the set off and enabler of established violations and crimes. If FFMI’s mandate is prolonged, will probably be in a position to analyze in additional depth the gender dimensions of recorded human rights violations and crimes.
Despite delays within the operational course of and budgetary challenges exterior its jurisdiction, FFMI has made vital progress in investigating violations dedicated in reference to the protests. However, as famous above, gaps stay and FFMI requires extra time and ample sources to course of the numerous quantity of proof collected. With extra time, FFMI will deal with any remaining gaps in its findings earlier than submitting its last report and search justice, fact, and reparations for grave human rights violations and crimes underneath worldwide legislation by Iranian officers. may additional promote this path. This will be certain that the voices of survivors, victims and their households are heard as they share their testimonies and take part in establishing fact and justice.
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Abdulrahman Bormand Iranian Human Rights Center (ABC)
human rights organizations
Ahwaz human rights group
All Human Rights for All in Iran
amnesty worldwide
Arce Sebom
Article 18
Article 19
Iran-Azerbaijan People’s Human Rights Association (AHRAZ)
baroque activist marketing campaign
Balochistan Human Rights Group
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Research (CIHRS)
Iranian Human Rights Center
Supporters Center for Human Rights (CSHR)
Ensemble Contre La Peine de Morte (ECPM)
Femena
entrance line defender
Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect
Harm Reduction International
hengo human rights group
Human Rights Watch
Impact on Iran
International Bar Association Human Rights Research Institute (IBAHRI)
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
human rights in iran
Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC)
justice for iran
Kurdistan Human Rights Association – Geneva (KMMK-G)
Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)
Kurdopa human rights group
mian group
Minority Rights Group International
Outright Action International
pen america
Siamak Puruzand Foundation (SPF)
united for iran
UNNPO – Nations and other people’s organizations with out illustration
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)
6Rang – Iranian Lesbian & Transgender Network
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