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Gender-sensitive Perspective into Extra-judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Killing

Iran, being ruled by religious Sharia laws, encourages the guardianship of the male citizens over their female relatives. Females are being deprived of any right to decide over their own body or life. Any attempt to violate against this lawful right of the males, entitles the males to punish the female to save their own …

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Iran: Open letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding impending execution of juvenile offender Alireza Tajiki

Juvenile offender, Alireza Tajiki, is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday 3 August 2016 in Iran. FIDH’s President Karim Lahidji has written an open letter to the UN HIgh Commissioner for Human Rights asking for his urgent intervention to prevent this grave violation of human rights. See the letter below.

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International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) members from around the world at the World Congress against the Death Penalty

(Oslo, Paris) FIDH and 14 of its member organisations from Algeria, Belarus, Botswana, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal, Thailand, Tunisia, Vietnam, and Uganda will participate in the 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty that will take place in Oslo from 21 to 23 June 2016. Among the FIDH delegation is Lubov Kovaleva the …

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Report violation of the rights of artists Enthusiast months of 1394

Report violation of the rights of artists Enthusiast months of 1394 Preparation: Mr. Ali looting

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According to the Environment Committee on March 94

According to the Environment Committee on March 94 In this month as well as the past few months our countries environment was plagued by a wave of corrupt poaching and the subsequent assault of environmentalist by the corrupt hunters.

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Iran is not a member of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women since:

Iran is not a member of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women since:

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Alas, with the innumerable

Alas, with the innumerable: Narges Mohammadi, N. servant, Maryam Jalili, Mitra hassle, M Shahriari, Haniyeh carpet makers, Ashraf Alikhani, Makvandi Jila Karam Zadeh, Zahra traveler, Mahboubeh Karami God, Fariba Kamal Abadi, Mahdieh Golroo, dew Madadzadeh, Brittany Nasrollahi, Atefeh Nabavi, S. Moradi, adequacy Malek Mohammadi, Bahareh Hedayat, Farah Vazehan, Reza Yavari, Holy veil, mother Said Zainal, …

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Council of Experts, all-male parliament to elect a leader of their sex.

There were no women among the candidates approved names. However, in the constitution of the Islamic of Iran, there is no prohibition for women in the (Assembly of Experts of the Leadership). Through one course of Council of Experts and four courses of Islamic Consultative Assembly there was only one seat in the Assembly of …

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Every promise given to us was wind in the air, Every point made was wrong and hypocrite.

Power without criticism and supervision is corruptible; From the promises which Hassan Rouhani has emphasized Criticism for four months of media;

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Repression and arrests of journalists prelude to elections in Iran

More than ten days after the arrest “Farzad Pourmoradi” by security forces there has been no contact or reason for this inhumane practice.

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