The situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran – Report of the Secretary-General

Oct 14, 20110 comments

Summary The present report is submitted in accordance with General Assembly solution 65/226, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to it at its sixty-sixth session. The report reflects the patterns and trends in the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran and provides information on the progress made in the implementation of resolution 65/226, including recommendations to improve its implementation. In that resolution, the Assembly called upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to address the substantive concerns highlighted in the previous report of the Secretary-General (A/65/370) and the specific calls to action found in previous resolutions of the Assembly (resolutions 63/191, 62/168 and 64/176), and to respect fully its human rights obligations, in law and in practice, in relation to a number of specifically identified concerns. >>Click here to download the full report in PDF format.