Title | Date added | Template | Mechanism | Date | Full Recommendation | Recommendation Status | Themes | Demographics | Source Reference Info |
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REF1616 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Sep 1, 2011 | The Special Rapporteur encourages the Government to open greater space for the aforementioned groups of civil society actors to be able to carry out their work. He also wishes to stress the importance of freedom of expression and assembly for a democratic, open society governed by the rule of law, and encourages the Government to refrain from repressing dissent. The Special Rapporteur would also like to underscore the importance of perpetuating a culture of tolerance, and urges the Government to prevent discrimination against women, as well religious and ethnic minorities, in all spheres of public life and services, and to protect their freedoms to freely associate and express themselves. | Not Implemented |
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| A/66/374 |
REF0017 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Sep 1, 2011 | Requests that he be allowed to visit that country in order to develop his dialogue with the authorities and either substantiate or lay to rest, allegations of human rights violations committed within its sovereign territory. | Not Implemented |
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| A/66/374 |
REF0025 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Sep 1, 2012 | Concludes that specific attention must be paid to legislation that serves to attenuate and abrogate rights guaranteed by the five international instruments to which the Islamic Republic of Iran is a party. Impunity must also be addressed in order to facilitate accountability, provide redress for human rights violations and strengthen the rule of law, all of which are required to effectively promote respect for human rights in the country. | Not Implemented |
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| A/67/369 |
REF0031 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Sep 1, 2012 | He continues to emphasize the need to establish an effective national human rights mechanism that is compliant with the Paris Principles, in order to ensure that violations of human rights are investigated and sufficient remedies are provided. | Not Implemented |
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| A/67/369 |
REF0043 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Aug 1, 2014 | The Government should consider extending the de facto moratorium on stoning. The continued failure of the judiciary to guarantee due process rights, the frequent application of the death penalty for crimes that do not meet the internationally permissible threshold for capital punishment and the imposition of the death penalty on juvenile offenders warrant an immediate and unconditional halt to such practices. | Partially Implemented |
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| A/69/356 |
REF0048 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Aug 1, 2014 | The Special Rapporteur reiterates the call upon the Government to incorporate the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into national law, to establish an independent national human rights institution, as it pledged when the country was first considered by the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, and to end all forms of discrimination in law and practice that undermine the full enjoyment of rights guaranteed by those two covenants, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, belief or opinion. | Not Implemented |
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| A/69/356 |
REF0058 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Oct 1, 2015 | Urges the authorities to ensure that persons are protected from acts that impair the free communication of information and ideas about public and political issues between citizens, candidates and elected representatives, which is essential to the protection of other rights. | Not Implemented |
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| A/70/411 |
REF0061 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Oct 1, 2015 | Encourages officials to reconsider amendments that would undermine the initially positive efforts to facilitate access of detained suspects to legal counsel during the investigation phase of their cases. | Not Implemented |
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| A/70/411 |
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 |
REF0067 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Sep 1, 2016 | Urges the authorities to recognize that freedom of religion or belief entails the freedom to choose a religion or belief and that measures that impose special restrictions on the practice of other faiths, or that discriminate on the basis of religion or belief, violate the guarantee of equal protection under article 26 of the International Covenant. | Not Implemented |
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| A/71/418 |
REF0071 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Sep 1, 2016 | Urges the authorities to strengthen aspects of the 1985 Press Law to ensure that persons are protected from acts that impair the free communication of information and ideas about public and political issues between citizens, which is essential to the protection of other rights. He also urges the Government to reconsider aspects of policies that undermine the rights of individuals to associate and assemble with like-minded persons for the purposes of promoting peaceful activities. | Not Implemented |
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| A/71/418 |
REF0078 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Aug 1, 2017 | The Special Rapporteur therefore calls on the Government to ensure that a thorough and independent investigation into the killings in 1998 is carried out. | Not Implemented |
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| A/72/322 |
REF0083 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Aug 1, 2017 | She urges the Government to reform the judicial system with a view to ensuring its independence. Appropriate training for the members of the judiciary is also necessary to ensure that guarantees of a fair trial and due process are effectively respected. | Not Implemented |
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| A/72/322 |
REF0084 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Aug 1, 2017 | The Special Rapporteur reiterates her call on the Government to uphold the integrity of judges, prosecutors and lawyers, notably by ensuring that appointments of judges are transparent and based on merit and by protecting them, their families and their professional associates against all forms of violence, threats, retaliation, intimidation and harassment as a result of discharging their functions. | Not Implemented |
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| A/72/322 |
REF0075 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Aug 1, 2017 | 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. | Not Implemented |
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| A/72/322 |
REF0086 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Aug 1, 2017 | The Special Rapporteur calls on the Government to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, to repeal all laws that discriminate against women and girls and to ensure that any bill still before Parliament that would further undermine the empowerment of women is dropped. She urges the Government to ensure the freedom of movement of women and girls and guarantee their right to physical education, physical activity and sport. Laws imposing dress codes on women 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/72/322 |
REF0093 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Aug 1, 2017 | The Special Rapporteur urges the authorities to recognize that dialogue and the inclusive participation of all the citizens in a diverse society can form the basis for enduring initiatives that address poverty and development, and can also serve to strengthen protections for the rights of all ethnic minorities in the country. She further encourages authorities to ensure that the rights of the members of the most vulnerable communities of the Islamic Republic of Iran are protected and respected. | Not Implemented |
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| A/72/322 |
REF0097 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Sep 1, 2018 | The Special Rapporteur expresses his grave concern at the continuing execution of juvenile offenders in the Islamic Republic of Iran and calls upon the Government to immediately prohibit all executions of persons charged with offences that they committed when under the age of 18 years. He further recommends that the Government abolish the death penalty in all cases and, pending that measure, introduce a moratorium. | Not Implemented |
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| A/73/398 |
REF0098 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Sep 1, 2018 | The Special Rapporteur calls upon the Government to ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and urges the Government to enact laws prohibiting the punishments of flogging and amputations, as they represent cruel, inhuman or degrading punishments and violate articles 7 and 10 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. | Not Implemented |
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| A/73/398 |
REF0092 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Aug 1, 2017 | The Special Rapporteur urges the authorities to recognize that freedom of religion or belief entails the freedom to choose a religion or belief, and that measures restricting eligibility for civil, political, social or economic privileges, or imposing special restrictions on the practice of other faiths, violate the prohibition of discrimination based on religion or belief and the guarantee of equal protection under article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. | Not Implemented |
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| A/72/322 |
REF0178 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Mar 1, 2014 | To facilitate the unconditional release of individuals imprisoned for exercising peacefully their rights to expression, association, assembly, belief and religion. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/25/61 |
REF0179 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Mar 1, 2014 | To strengthen fair trial safeguards by ensuring access to legal counsel during all phases of pretrial detention and the investigative stage of cases, including during interrogation and arraignment, and allow for legal counsel to advise the accused during these proceedings. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/25/61 |
REF0180 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Mar 1, 2014 | To improve access of legal counsel to all files containing evidence against the accused. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/25/61 |
REF0181 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Mar 1, 2014 | To investigate all allegations of mistreatment and/or psychological and physical torture, and to prosecute the parties responsible. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/25/61 |
REF0187 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Mar 1, 2015 | 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. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/28/70 |
REF0189 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Mar 1, 2015 | He calls on the authorities to release all individuals identified by the WGAD as being arbitrarily detained, as well as other political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/28/70 |
REF0190 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Mar 1, 2015 | He urges the authorities to recognize that freedom of religion or belief entails the freedom to choose a religion or belief, and that measures restricting eligibility for civil, political, social or economic privileges, or imposing special restrictions on the practices or manifestations of the beliefs of other faiths violate the prohibition of discrimination based on religion or belief and the guarantee of equal protection under article 26 of the ICCPR. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/28/70 |
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 |
REF0200 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Mar 1, 2015 | The Government should amend laws and policies, and reconsider draft legislation, that infringe on the right to freely associate and assemble with expressive groups or like-minded individuals and to promote peaceful ideals and activities. Non-governmental organizations, including unregistered associations, should be allowed to function freely, and their members should be able to operate in a safe environment. The Special Rapporteur echoes the recommendation made by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association that the establishment of associations should be facilitated by a notification procedure that is simple, easily accessible, non-discriminatory and non-onerous or free of charge. Furthermore, the right to peaceful assembly should not be subject to prior authorization by the authorities, but at the most to a prior notification procedure, which should not be burdensome, and the Government should recognize spontaneous assemblies as exempted from prior notification. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/28/70 |
REF0203 | Mar 27, 2021 | Recommendations | Special Rapporteur - Iran | Mar 1, 2015 | The Special Rapporteur looks forward to observing the impact that amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure will have on improving access to legal counsel, and encourages the Government to guarantee this right for all accused, regardless of the allegations against them. He notes that the Government should further ensure that national laws support the independence of lawyers, in accordance with international norms and standards, and implores the Islamic Republic of Iran to release all lawyers that appear to have been imprisoned for protected activities in defence of their clients, such as raising awareness about fair trial concerns. | Not Implemented |
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| A/HRC/28/70 |