REF1059
- Mechanism
- CESCR
- Date
- Jun 1, 2013
- Full Recommendation
The Committee recommends that the State party take steps to strengthen its national legislation prohibiting child labour in accordance with international standards, in all sectors, including in agriculture, domestic service, and clay/brickmaking. The Committee also recommends that the State party ensure that the implementation of legislation pertaining to child labour is effectively monitored and enforced, including through labour inspections in agriculture and the informal sector, ensuring that employers exploiting child labour are held accountable and that victims of child labour are rehabilitated and are ensured access to education. The Committee recommends that the State party undertake awareness-raising campaigns with a view to eradicating child labour.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Right to education
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- E/C.12/IRN/CO/2
REF0628
- Mechanism
- Human Rights Committee
- Date
- Nov 1, 2011
- Full Recommendation
The State party should take steps to combat and prevent the trafficking and sale of persons under 18 years of age. The State party is also requested to provide the Committee in its next periodic report with statistics, on an annual basis, on the number of arrests and convictions under the 2004 law to combat trafficking.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- International treaties, reporting, data and non-compliance
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CCPR/C/IRN/CO/3
REF0873
- Mechanism
- CRC
- Date
- Mar 1, 2016
- Full Recommendation
The Committee recommends that the State party, in order to further strengthen the fulfilment of children's rights, consider ratifying the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on a communications procedure.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Protection of the child from all forms of violence
- Ratification Status
- Demographics
- Children
- General Population, individual cases, miscellaneous
- Source Reference Info
- CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4
REF0875
- Mechanism
- CRC
- Date
- Mar 1, 2016
- Full Recommendation
The Committee urges the State party to fulfil its reporting obligations under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, the report for which is overdue as of 16 April 2013.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- International treaties, reporting, data and non-compliance
- Protection of children from sexual abuse
- Protection of the child from all forms of violence
- The prevention of trafficking of children
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4
REF0872
- Mechanism
- CRC
- Date
- Mar 1, 2016
- Full Recommendation
To that effect (92) the Committee urges the State party to bring its juvenile justice system fully into line with the Convention and other relevant standards), the Committee recommends that the State party make use of the technical assistance tools developed by the Inter-agency Panel on Juvenile Justice, and seek technical assistance in the area of juvenile justice from members of the Panel and relevant international bodies.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- International treaties, reporting, data and non-compliance
- Right to fair trial
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4
REF0882
- Mechanism
- CRC
- Date
- Mar 1, 2016
- Full Recommendation
End the execution of children and persons who committed a crime while under the age of 18;
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Right to life
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4
REF0903
- Mechanism
- CRC
- Date
- Mar 1, 2016
- Full Recommendation
Ensure that immigration proceedings involving children are decided on the basis of the best interests of the child, and prevent separation of families during the deportation process.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Family-related rights
- Demographics
- Children
- Migrants, Refugees and non-nationals
- Source Reference Info
- CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4
REF0904
- Mechanism
- CRC
- Date
- Mar 1, 2016
- Full Recommendation
Prohibit the employment of children below the age of 18 years in hazardous conditions that jeopardize physical, mental or moral health and the safety of children.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Protection of children from sexual abuse
- Protection of the child from all forms of violence
- Right to work
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4
REF0905
- Mechanism
- CRC
- Date
- Mar 1, 2016
- Full Recommendation
Ensure that all forms of enterprises and workshops remain within the domain of labour regulations and are systematically monitored and controlled by labour inspectors for potential violations of the rights of child workers.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Protection of the child from all forms of violence
- Right to work
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4
REF0906
- Mechanism
- CRC
- Date
- Mar 1, 2016
- Full Recommendation
Seek technical assistance in this regard from the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour of the International Labour Office.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- International treaties, reporting, data and non-compliance
- Protection of the child from all forms of violence
- Right to work
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4
REF0884
- Mechanism
- CRC
- Date
- Mar 1, 2016
- Full Recommendation
Commute all existing sentences for offenders on death row who committed a crime while under the age of 18 years.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Right to life
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4
REF0834
- Mechanism
- CRC
- Date
- Mar 1, 2016
- Full Recommendation
In the light of its general comment No. 2 (2002) on the role of independent national human rights institutions, the Committee recommends that the State party take measures to expeditiously establish, in compliance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (Paris Principles), an independent mechanism for monitoring human rights, including a specific mechanism for monitoring children's rights that is able to receive, investigate and address complaints by children in a child-sensitive manner, ensure the privacy and protection of victims, and undertake monitoring, follow-up and verification activities for victims.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- International treaties, reporting, data and non-compliance
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4
REF0839
- Mechanism
- CRC
- Date
- Mar 1, 2016
- Full Recommendation
The Committee urges the State party to revise, as a matter of urgency and priority, its legislation in order to ensure that all persons below the age of 18 years, without exceptions, are considered as children and are provided with all the rights under the Convention. The Committee also urges the State party to further increase the minimum age for marriage for both girls and boys to 18 years, and to take all necessary measures to eliminate child marriages in line with the State party's obligations under the Convention.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Gender based violence
- Protection of children from sexual abuse
- Protection of the child from all forms of violence
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4
REF0032
- Mechanism
- Special Rapporteur - Iran
- Date
- Sep 1, 2012
- Full Recommendation
The Special Rapporteur also continues to underline the importance of perpetuating a culture of tolerance, and urges the Government to prevent discrimination against women and girls, as well as religious and ethnic minorities, in all spheres of public life and services, and to protect their freedoms to freely associate and express themselves. He further calls on the Government to ensure that the minimum age for marriage complies with international standards and that measures to prevent the forced, early and temporary marriage of girls are established
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Freedom from discrimination
- Freedom of expression
- Protection of children from sexual abuse
- Protection of the child from all forms of violence
- Right to assembly & association
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- A/67/369
REF0843
- Mechanism
- CRC
- Date
- Mar 1, 2016
- Full Recommendation
In the light of its general comment No. 14 (2013) on the right of the child to have his or her best interests taken as a primary consideration, the Committee recommends that the State party revise its Civil Law accordingly and strengthen its efforts to ensure that this right is appropriately integrated and consistently interpreted and is applied in all legislative, administrative and judicial proceedings and decisions as well as in all policies, programmes and projects that are relevant to, and have an impact on, children. In this regard, the State party is encouraged to develop procedures and criteria to provide guidance to all relevant persons in authority for determining the best interests of the child in every area and for giving this due weight as a primary consideration.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Child's right to be heard
- International treaties, reporting, data and non-compliance
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4
REF0075
- Mechanism
- Special Rapporteur - Iran
- Date
- Aug 1, 2017
- Full Recommendation
The Special Rapporteur remains deeply concerned about the alarming level of executions, including of juveniles, in the country. She reiterates her call on the Government to immediately and unconditionally abolish the sentencing of children to death and to engage in a comprehensive process of commutation of all death sentences issued against children, in line with juvenile justice standards. The Special Rapporteur also reiterates her calls to establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, to replace the death penalty for drug-related offences with penalties that comply with relevant international standards, and to end the practice of public executions.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Right to life
- Demographics
- Children
- General Population, individual cases, miscellaneous
- Source Reference Info
- A/72/322
REF0187
- Mechanism
- Special Rapporteur - Iran
- Date
- Mar 1, 2015
- Full Recommendation
The Government should also expedite the removal of landmines and explosives that continue to pose a threat to the lives and security of populations located in their vicinity, enhance provisions for public education -- particularly for at risk children -- and ensure immediate and non-discriminatory access to adequate medical treatment and pension programs for victims and their families.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Freedom from discrimination
- Liberty and Security of the person
- Right to health
- Demographics
- Children
- General Population, individual cases, miscellaneous
- Source Reference Info
- A/HRC/28/70
REF1471
- Mechanism
- Special Rapporteur - Iran
- Date
- Jan 1, 2019
- Full Recommendation
Pending implementation of the aforementioned recommendations, and without prejudice to the binding obligation enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to not sentence children to death and to not execute child offenders, the Special Rapporteur recommends that the judiciary: Ensure that any article 91 assessment is conducted on the prima facie basis that there is uncertainty about the mental development of the child, and as such a death sentence cannot be imposed. Ensure that the burden of proof is always on the prosecution to establish complete certainty about the full mental development of the child, in line with article 91. Furthermore, ensure that the child is afforded the benefit of the doubt if the assessment is not undertaken immediately after the crime;
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Child's right to be heard
- Right to life
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- A/HRC/40/67
REF1476
- Mechanism
- Special Rapporteur - Iran
- Date
- Jan 1, 2019
- Full Recommendation
Pending implementation of the aforementioned recommendations, and without prejudice to the binding obligation enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to not sentence children to death and to not execute child offenders, the Special Rapporteur recommends that the judiciary: When assessing the quality and veracity of testimony or confession offered by the child, ensure that the judge considers all circumstances of interrogation, especially the age of the child as well as the length of detention and interrogation and the presence of legal or other representatives and parents during questioning;
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Child's right to be heard
- Right to fair trial
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- A/HRC/40/67
REF1465
- Mechanism
- Special Rapporteur - Iran
- Date
- Jan 1, 2019
- Full Recommendation
The Special Rapporteur recommends that Parliament: Withdraw the general reservation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child given that such a general reservation is not compatible with the object and purpose of the Convention;
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- International treaties, reporting, data and non-compliance
- Right to life
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- A/HRC/40/67
REF1466
- Mechanism
- Special Rapporteur - Iran
- Date
- Jan 1, 2019
- Full Recommendation
The Special Rapporteur recommends that Parliament: Amend the Penal Code to increase the age of criminal responsibility for qisas and hudud crimes to 18 years for all children, and ensure that all children are treated equally and without discrimination within the criminal justice system.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Freedom from discrimination
- Protection of the child from all forms of violence
- Right to fair trial
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- A/HRC/40/67
REF1467
- Mechanism
- Special Rapporteur - Iran
- Date
- Jan 1, 2019
- Full Recommendation
The Special Rapporteur recommends that the judiciary: (a) Urgently halt the planned execution of all child offenders, and commute the death sentences imposed on the basis of qisas and hudud crimes for all child offenders;
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Right to life
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- A/HRC/40/67
REF1468
- Mechanism
- Special Rapporteur - Iran
- Date
- Jan 1, 2019
- Full Recommendation
The Special Rapporteur recommends that the judiciary: Pending legislative review, urgently issue a circular which requires all judges not to sentence children to death on the basis of qisas or hudud crimes, and which requires presiding judges to order retrials for all child offenders on death row without recourse to the death penalty.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Right to fair trial
- Right to life
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- A/HRC/40/67
REF1470
- Mechanism
- Special Rapporteur - Iran
- Date
- Jan 1, 2019
- Full Recommendation
Pending implementation of the aforementioned recommendations, and without prejudice to the binding obligation enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to not sentence children to death and to not execute child offenders, the Special Rapporteur recommends that the judiciary: (a) Require courts to comprehensively assess mental development in all cases in line with article 91 of the Penal Code, and to always seek expert advice from the relevant child development, psychology, psychiatry, and social service fields as well as from the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization, with a view to ensuring that the child is exempted from the death penalty;
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Right to fair trial
- Right to life
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- A/HRC/40/67
REF1486
- Mechanism
- Special Rapporteur - Iran
- Date
- Jan 1, 2019
- Full Recommendation
Pending abolition of the death penalty for child offenders, the Special Rapporteur recommends that the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization, and other expert bodies called upon to conduct article 91 assessments: Afford the child offender the benefit of the doubt and deliver a finding of uncertainty when absolute certainty cannot be scientifically established, including if the assessment is not conducted immediately after the alleged offence. Establish and publish a methodology to conduct the assessment.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Right to fair trial
- Right to life
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- A/HRC/40/67
REF1565
- Mechanism
- Special Rapporteur - Iran
- Date
- Mar 1, 2018
- Full Recommendation
The Special Rapporteur remains troubled by the continuing large number of executions, including of juvenile offenders, and reiterates her call on the Government to introduce a moratorium on the use of the death penalty and to prohibit and refrain from the execution of juvenile offenders in all circumstances. The Special Rapporteur further urges the Government to undertake a special review of the cases of persons on death row for crimes committed when they were under the age of 18, with a view to commuting or quashing their death sentences altogether.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Right to life
- Demographics
- Children
- General Population, individual cases, miscellaneous
- Source Reference Info
- A/HRC/37/68
REF0586
- Mechanism
- Human Rights Committee
- Date
- Aug 2, 1993
- Full Recommendation
The Committee recommends that domestic laws should be revised with a view to curtailing the number of offences currently punishable by the death penalty and to reducing the number of executions. Public executions should be avoided and the accused should, in all cases, be provided with all necessary guarantees, including the right to a fair trial as provided for under article 14 of the Covenant.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Protection of the child from all forms of violence
- Right to fair trial
- Right to life
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CCPR/C/79/Add.25
REF1072
- Mechanism
- CESCR
- Date
- Jun 1, 2013
- Full Recommendation
The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to ensure that all children receive birth certificates and that the lack of such a document is not an impediment for school enrolment of a child. It recommends that the State party take measures to ensure that refugee children have access to education, regardless of whether their parents have registered with the authorities, and that primary education, including enrolment thereto, is offered free of charge. The Committee also recommends that the State party intensify its measures to guarantee an inclusive education for children with disabilities, including through the Organization for Special Children and the Seven-Point Guideline for Universal and Consolidated Education for Children and Students with Special Needs, and to ensure that all children of nomadic communities have access to primary education, including through the establishment of mobile schools.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Right to education
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- E/C.12/IRN/CO/2
REF0617
- Mechanism
- Human Rights Committee
- Date
- Nov 1, 2011
- Full Recommendation
The State party should amend the Penal Code to abolish the imposition of corporal punishment by judicial and administrative authorities. The State party should also explicitly prohibit all forms of corporal punishment in child-rearing and education, including by repealing the legal defences for its use in article 1179 of the Civil Code, articles 49 and 59 of the Penal Code and article 7 of the Law on the Protection of Children.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- Right to education
- Demographics
- Children
- Source Reference Info
- CCPR/C/IRN/CO/3
REF1048
- Mechanism
- CESCR
- Date
- Jun 1, 2013
- Full Recommendation
The Committee recommends that the State party increase its efforts to combat unemployment through specifically targeted measures, in particular, aimed at women and youth, including by addressing mismatches between education and labour markets through increases in the quality of technical and vocational training and education. The Committee also urges the State party to adopt temporary special measures to address the very high unemployment rates in areas with ethnic minorities, and to include information in its next State party report on the progress achieved.
- Recommendation Status
- Not Implemented
- Themes
- International treaties, reporting, data and non-compliance
- Right to education
- Right to work
- Demographics
- Children
- General Population, individual cases, miscellaneous
- Religious, Ethnic and Linguistic Minorities
- Women and Girls
- Source Reference Info
- E/C.12/IRN/CO/2