Human Rights Universal Declaration-Article 23 (The right to work safety)
- Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
- Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
- Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
- Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Row | Subject | Amount | Case |
1 | Special News | – | 5 |
2 | The Sack and Lay-off | – | 3 |
3 | Protests and Strikes | – | 21 |
4 | Detention, Imprisonment, Summon | 66 | 12 |
5 | Piggy back | – | 19 |
6 | Death and Injury | 66 | 19 |
7 | Delay in Wages | – | 19 |
Total | 132 | 98 |
The above statistics have been collected from the Islamic Republic of Iran Government internal and external media reports and practically unable to exceed 30 % of the society realities.
Compiler: Irandokht Kia, Seyed Ashkan Hoseini
Defense of Human Rights Association in Iran
The Defense of Work and Workers Rights Committee
Translated by Human Right Defender Alireza Jahanbin