Dear friends, It is with great love and consideration that I'm writing to let you know of my future plans; after a year of deliberation and thoughtful transition, I will be…
5 years ago my cousin Mehdi was arrested by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Throughout the 2009 protests, Mehdi and I worked separately with student activists to organize protests and…
Amnesty International, Impact Iran and United4Iran have created a new petition on behalf of women's rights and student activist Bahareh Hedayat on change.org. Ms. Hedayat was involved with The Campaign…
Majid Tavakoli, a student activist currently imprisoned in Iran was awarded, in absentia, the International Student Peace Prize in Trondheim, Norway today.
فارسی UNGA and UN Secretary-General should strengthen action (October 24, 2012) – Washington, D.C. – In an unprecedented study released today, United for Iran has described the global response to…
(Trondheim, Norway - 21 September 2012) The Student Peace Prize of 2013 was awarded to the Iranian student leader Majid Tavakoli. The winner was announced in the main library at…
برای خواندن متن کامل سخنرانی به فارسی اینجا کلیک کنید Ban Ki-moon calls on Iran to free political prisoners and permit free expression ahead of 2013 elections August 31, 2012…
Despite calls in some quarters for him to skip out, the UN Secretary General plans to travel to Iran next week, a country that has become a dungeon for its own people. He will attend the 16th Summit of the 120-member Non-Aligned Movement, which will be chaired by Iran through 2014. Most of the criticisms of him going have come from states leading efforts to isolate Iran due to the nuclear impasse. But at a time when severe human rights abuses continue unabated against Iran's citizens, it is a critical opportunity to refocus international attention on the dire situation in the country and pressure Iran's leaders to improve conditions for its people.
The following letter was submitted by the student group, Green Messengers of Hope in Iran, to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, urging him to address human rights abuses by the Iranian…
A second report published by the Office for Consolidating Unity, a leading independent Iranian student union, has detailed ongoing human rights violations against Iranian students over the last nine months.…
