Iran. By the order of President Rouhani, the Supreme Administrative Council reportedly decided to allocate 30% of the managerial positions to Iranian women. The Government also established a National Task Force on the Empowerment of Female Heads of Households in the field of development of employment and entrepreneurship and launched the Women's Business Development and Acceleration Center, which is aimed at “strengthening rural women's associations and cooperation” as well as “entrepreneurship development for women”. 18 Out of the 41 million Iranian female population,19 the Government reported that 4,000 are “active female entrepreneurs”.20 According to the Government, women’s economic participation rate “has risen from 12.4% in 2013 to 16.4% in 2018”.21 Other governmental statistics published in 2018 reportedly indicated that female economic participation stood at 15.9%.22 Regardless, such rates remain some of the lowest in the world. In the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report in 2017, Iran was ranked 140 out of 144 countries assessed.23 Similarly, a World Bank study ranked Iran fourth lowest in its 2019 Women, Business and the Law index.24 Unemployment is more prevalent among women in Iran compared to men. 25 There are no reports that indicate the existence of effective state-sponsored campaigns aimed at helping employers and workers to identify discrimination and promote equality in Iranian workplaces. The Islamic Republic of Iran has not amended laws that violate the right to work of women as well as their right to be free from discrimination in the workplace and in the hiring process. D. The Special Rapporteur urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to protect children born within its jurisdiction by facilitating the ability of women to pass on their citizenship to their sons and daughters The Iranian government passed a new law in 2020 that enables Iranian mothers who married a foreign national to pass on their nationality to their children, provided that they have been cleared by national security checks carried by the Intelligence Ministry and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ intelligence organization.26 The law, entitled “Granting Citizenship to Children Resulting from Marriage Between Iranian Women and Non-Iranian Men” was 18 UPR 2019, National Report, Islamic Republic of Iran, https://undocs.org/A/HRC/WG.6/34/IRN/1 World Bank, 2019, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL.FE.IN?locations=IR 20 UPR 2019, National Report, Islamic Republic of Iran, https://undocs.org/A/HRC/WG.6/34/IRN/1 21 UPR 2019, National Report, Islamic Republic of Iran, https://undocs.org/A/HRC/WG.6/34/IRN/1 22 Statistical Centre of Iran, https://bit.ly/330NG8t 23 World Economic Forum, the Global Gender Gap Report 2017. < https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-gender-gapreport-2017 > 24 World Bank, Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform, May 2019, https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/31327/WBL2019.pdf 25 Statistics Center of Iran <https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/1/releases/lfs/LFS_1397.pdf> 26 Radio Farda: <https://en.radiofarda.com/a/children-with-iranian-mothers-foreign-fathers-to-receive-citizenship/30652718.html> 19 4