On March 8th at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, a group of women's rights activists will be hosting a panel discussion on...
Join United for Iran in a worldwide campaign: “Elections Aren’t Free Until We Are All Free”
(February 14, 2013) - It’s been four years since the disputed Iranian presidential elections that resulted in massive uprisings and a brutal...
Ahwazi Arabs at Risk of Execution
Five Ahwazi Arabs have been sentenced to death in Iran. Thirty international organizations have signed the following letter, calling in the Islamic...
Join us in supporting human rights in Iran as you finalize your end of the year giving
United for Iran began in the summer of 2009 as a cry from the heart. During the events following the disputed presidential elections, the world...
United for Iran Urges Yahoo! to Improve E-mail Security to Ensure Safety of Human Rights Activists
United for Iran joined twenty-five leading human rights and cyber-security organizations and activists in issuing a letter to Melissa Mayer, CEO of...
NGOs Call on UN Member States to Support UNGA Resolution Addressing Human Rights Abuses in Iran
Violations escalate with impunity; Non-Western powers urged to take leadership on human rights crisis (November 21, 2012) -- Human rights and press...
What the President Should Now Do About Iran
By Roya Boroumand (07 Nov 2012) The American presidential campaign is over and Americans have elected a president who will have to face many...
Iranian Diaspora Worries About War, Sanctions and Human Rights
[This article first appeared in Al-Monitor. The original posting can be found here.] By Roxana Saberi (November 14, 2012) - As President Obama...
News Release: UN human Rights Experts Urge Immediate Release of Sakharov Prize Winners
GENEVA (1 November 2012) – A group of United Nations independent experts called for the immediate release from prison of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a...
A Persian letter to Arab revolutionaries
Abolfazl Ghadyani is an ageing revolutionary. He put his life on the line to make the Islamic Republic in Iran possible. He is now a political...