To: Member States of the UN General Assembly Your Excellency: We, the undersigned human rights and civil society organizations, write to urge your government to vote in favor of resolution…
March 8, 2013 – On this International Women’s Day, United for Iran calls on Iranian authorities to put an end to their systematic assault on women’s rights. As the Iranian…
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 stoning, violence…
(February 14th, 2013) - Two years ago, Iranian authorities placed prominent opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, and their wives on house arrest, in violation of their most basic human…
Five Ahwazi Arabs have been sentenced to death in Iran. Thirty international organizations have signed the following letter, calling in the Islamic Republic of Iran to halt the executions. (January…
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 witnessed the heroic struggle of…
NEW YORK – (December 21, 2012) – Yesterday, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to condemn the Iranian Government for “serious ongoing and recurring human rights violations” in the…
United for Iran joined twenty-five leading human rights and cyber-security organizations and activists in issuing a letter to Melissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! last week, calling on the internet company…
Violations escalate with impunity; Non-Western powers urged to take leadership on human rights crisis (November 21, 2012) -- Human rights and press freedom organizations have called on UN member states…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 9, 2012) - Yesterday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated four Iranian officials and five Iranian entities as human rights abusers, bringing the total number to 16 individuals and…
