Concluding Observations Committee on the Rights of the Child CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4 para 82(a) Full recommendation: Systematically collect disaggregated data on its refugee and asylum-seeking children in order to be able to develop programmes and policies that respond to their needs Assessment using Impact Iran human rights indicators1 In its National Report to the Universal Periodic Review in 2019, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran stated it “established mechanisms for monitoring and screening information” of refugees and asylum seekers.2 There is no readily available information as to what kind of data such mechanism collects. The last publicly available and comprehensive census of the refugee and asylum-seeking population in the Islamic Republic of Iran was published in 2015. It informed that over 951,000 Afghan refugees hold a valid Amayesh card (refugee identification card).3 The Islamic Republic of Iran officially stopped distributing residency cards to new refugees in 2007. Additionally, the Iranian “Knowledge-based technology publications”, published earlier this year an “Iran Migration Outlook” document, mentioning the number of Afghan and Iraqi immigrants until 2018. According to the document, the latest data shows 979,410 immigrants, including 951,142 Afghan and 28,268 Iraqi nationals, same numbers since 2015.4 In 2017, the Government carried a ‘headcount exercise’, targeting certain categories of individuals residing in Iran without valid documentation. In 2018, another headcount targeted foreign nationals working informally and formally in Iran as well as their employers.5 There is no readily available information that might indicate that the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran systematically collects disaggregated data on its refugee and asylum-seeking children. Recommendation Status: This recommendation has NOT been implemented. 1 CRC.20.1.O.1 National Report, UPR 2019, Islamic Republic of Iran, https://undocs.org/A/HRC/WG.6/34/IRN/1 3 UNHCR, https://reporting.unhcr.org/sites/default/files/UNHCR%20Iran%20Fact%20Sheet%20-%20Jan-Mar%202020.pdf 4 Iran Migration Outlook, 2020, Knowledge-based technology publications, p.224. 5 UNHCR, https://reporting.unhcr.org/sites/default/files/UNHCR%20Iran%20Fact%20Sheet%20-%20Jan-Mar%202020.pdf 2 1

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