Title | Date added | Template | Mechanism | Date | Full Recommendation | Recommendation Status | Themes | Demographics | Source Reference Info |
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REF0607 | Mar 22, 2021 | Recommendations | Human Rights Committee | Nov 1, 2011 | The State party should adopt legislation criminalizing domestic violence and take steps to effectively combat domestic violence. It should ensure that victims have immediate access to means of redress and protection, including through the establishment of a sufficient number of safe houses for victims. The State party should ensure that acts of domestic violence are effectively investigated and that perpetrators are prosecuted and sanctioned. The State party should also ensure that a husband is not exempted from punishment for voluntary manslaughter, in the event that he murders his wife on suspicion of adultery. | Not Implemented |
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| CCPR/C/IRN/CO/3 |
REF0592 | Mar 19, 2021 | Recommendations | Human Rights Committee | Aug 1, 1993 | The Committee recommends that active measures should be taken to enhance the status of women in the Islamic Republic of Iran in accordance with articles 2, 3 and 23 of the Covenant and to guarantee their equal enjoyment of rights and freedoms. | Not Implemented |
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| CCPR/C/79/Add.25 |
REF0462 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Violence Against Women | Jan 1, 2006 | Establish and support more shelters for women who have been subjected to violence and to ensure that women are able to access information about these shelters through the police, judicial personnel and medical staff as well as women's non-governmental organizations; | Not Implemented |
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| E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.3 |
REF0861 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | CRC | Mar 1, 2016 | With reference to paragraph 27 of the present document, the Committee urges the State party to revise its Civil Code and all other relevant legislation to ensure equal rights of girls in family relations and provide girls with the right to inheritance on equal terms with boys. Furthermore, the Committee recommends that the State party consider ratifying the Hague Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, the Hague Protocol of 23 November 2007 on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations, and the Hague Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Cooperation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children. | Not Implemented |
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| CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4 |
REF0889 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | CRC | Mar 1, 2016 | Review its legislation with a view to banning polygamy, which is contrary to women's and girls' dignity and infringes their human rights and freedoms, including equality and protection within the family. | Not Implemented |
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| CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4 |
REF0066 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Sep 1, 2016 | He encourages the Government to continue to amend laws in line with its legal obligations and pledges made during the Universal Periodic Review to protect the equal and full enjoyment by women of their civil, political, social and economic rights, including the right to freedom of movement, the right to work and the right to be free from discrimination, especially in the workplace. | Not Implemented |
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| A/71/418 |
REF0166 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Feb 1, 2013 | Examine and address those laws that contravene its international obligation to eliminate all forms of discrimination in law and practice. These include those laws and policies that undermine gender equality and women's rights, and that discriminate against religious and ethnic minorities, and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in the country. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/22/56 |
REF0191 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Mar 1, 2015 | Calls on the Government to amend laws that violate the rights of women, or that undermine their full enjoyment of civil political, social, and economic rights, including the right work and to freedom from discrimination, especially in education and the workplace. Draft legislation currently under consideration that appears to infringe on these rights raises serious concern, and should be reconsidered. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/28/70 |
REF0854 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Jan 1, 2019 | The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government and Parliament: Ensure that human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, and lawyers and journalists are not threatened with or subjected to intimidation, harassment, arbitrary arrest, deprivation of liberty or other arbitrary sanction, and release all those detained in connection with their work; | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/40/67 |
REF0460 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Violence Against Women | Jan 1, 2006 | Review all cases of women currently being detained for crimes related to sexual and moral conduct who did not have a fair trial or enjoy guarantees of due process with a view to retrying the case or releasing the accused woman. | Not Implemented |
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| E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.3 |
REF0461 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Violence Against Women | Jan 1, 2006 | Provide effective protection to women who have experienced violence by ensuring that they are able to approach the police, to secure alternative housing and to access medical care; | Not Implemented |
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| E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.3 |
REF1048 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | CESCR | Jun 1, 2013 | 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. | Not Implemented |
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| E/C.12/IRN/CO/2 |
REF0847 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | CRC | Mar 1, 2016 | In the light of its general comment No. 12 (2009) on the right of the child to be heard, the Committee recommends that the State party adopt and implement legislation recognizing the right of the child to be heard in all relevant legal proceedings by establishing systems and/or procedures for social workers and courts to comply with the principle. It also recommends that the State party conduct programmes and awareness-raising activities to promote the meaningful and effective participation of all children within the family, the community and schools, including within student council bodies, with particular attention to girls and to children in vulnerable situations. | Not Implemented |
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| CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4 |
REF0851 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | CRC | Mar 1, 2016 | The Committee urges the State party to take measures to prevent and eliminate discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief and to ensure that members of religious minority groups, in particular persons of the Baha'i faith, are not persecuted, imprisoned or ill-treated on the account of their religion. The Committee also recommends that the State party review its hijab laws and regulations and ensure that the right of girls to wear or not to wear the hijab is fully respected. | Not Implemented |
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| CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4 |
REF0880 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | CRC | Mar 1, 2016 | Utilize a child-rights approach in the elaboration of the State budget, by implementing a tracking system for the allocation and the use of resources for children throughout the budget, and use this tracking system for impact assessments on how investments in any sector may serve the best interests of the child, ensuring that the different impact of such investment on girls and boys is measured; | Not Implemented |
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| CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4 |
REF0898 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | CRC | Mar 1, 2016 | Invest in training and providing more female teachers, especially in rural areas of the country. | Not Implemented |
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| CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4 |
REF0912 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | CRC | Mar 1, 2016 | In the light of its general comment No. 10 (2007) on children's rights in juvenile justice, the Committee urges the State party to bring its juvenile justice system fully into line with the Convention and other relevant standards. Increase the age of criminal responsibility for girls, and ensure that girls and boys are treated on equal terms under the whole criminal justice system. | Not Implemented |
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| CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4 |
REF0059 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Oct 1, 2015 | Existing laws and draft legislation appear to unreasonably exclude individuals from standing for public office on the basis of gender, religion, political affiliation, opinion and social or personal background. Encourages the authorities to reconsider statutes that place unreasonable conditions on the exercise by all Iranian citizens of rights protected by article 25 of the Covenant (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights). | Not Implemented |
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| A/70/411 |
REF0244 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Mar 1, 2017 | The Special Rapporteur calls on the Government to ratify the Convention on the elimination of discrimination against women, to amend and repeal all laws which discriminate women and girls and to refrain from adopting laws and measures which would further undermine the empowerment of women and their participation into the labour force. She urges the Government to ensure women and girls' freedom of movement and guarantee their fundamental right to physical education, physical activity and sport. Laws and regulations that require women and girls to observe the Islamic dress code infringe their right to have, adopt and profess or not a religion or belief and do not take into account the various religious components of the Iranian society. These laws should be reviewed and the Government should respect the right of anyone to privacy and ensure that security forces refrain from acting as moral guardians of the citizens. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/34/65 |
REF1055 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | CESCR | Jun 1, 2013 | The Committee recommends that the State party take urgent legislative steps to specifically criminalize domestic violence, including marital rape. It also recommends that the State party take steps to ensure that victims of domestic violence have access to effective means of redress and immediate protection, including through a sufficient number of safe houses. | Not Implemented |
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| E/C.12/IRN/CO/2 |
REF0470 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Violence Against Women | Jan 1, 2006 | Institute special measures to increase women's political participation and appoint more women to high-level government positions; | Not Implemented |
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| E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.3 |
REF0471 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Violence Against Women | Jan 1, 2006 | Provide special programmes for women from minority groups who suffer multiple forms of discrimination; | Not Implemented |
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| E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.3 |
REF0472 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Violence Against Women | Jan 1, 2006 | Ensure that women have equal rights to enter into marriage and during the marriage relationship, as well as at its dissolution; | Not Implemented |
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| E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.3 |
REF0474 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Violence Against Women | Jan 1, 2006 | Support research on the linkages between discrimination and violence against women and family and societal well-being; | Not Implemented |
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| E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.3 |
REF0463 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Violence Against Women | Jan 1, 2006 | Conduct research on violence against women and to collect data concerning its prevalence; | Not Implemented |
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| E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.3 |
REF0464 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Violence Against Women | Jan 1, 2006 | Conduct a full investigation into suicides of young women and their relationship to diverse forms of violence against women, to design preventive and protective measures to address these suicides, and to prevent the development of prejudice in public opinion that would revictimize survivors of suicide attempts and/or their families; | Not Implemented |
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| E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.3 |
REF0465 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Violence Against Women | Jan 1, 2006 | Ensure that all institutions and individuals engaged in law enforcement activities are accountable to the Government and that they respect all human rights and fundamental freedoms as laid out in international human rights instruments; | Not Implemented |
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| E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.3 |
REF0215 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Mar 1, 2016 | Despite some positive amendments in 2013, the Islamic Penal Code continues to justify serious human rights violations perpetrated by government officials, including members of the judiciary. Many provisions in the penal code violate the country's international human rights obligations by criminalizing the peaceful exercise of fundamental rights or other acts that are not internationally recognized as crimes. The penal code also continues to discriminate against girls, women and religious minorities. The Special Rapporteur encourages the Government to consider additional reforms to the penal code in line with the country's international legal obligations. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/31/69 |
REF0437 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Violence Against Women | Jan 1, 2006 | Implement the provisions of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women | Not Implemented |
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| E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.3 |
REF1021 | Mar 25, 2021 | Recommendations | CESCR | Jun 1, 2013 | The Committee recommends that the State party take steps to lift all restrictions on access to university education, including bans on female and male enrolment, limited quotas for women in certain fields, and gender segregation in classrooms and facilities. | Not Implemented |
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| E/C.12/IRN/CO/2 |