Source: irwincotler.liberal.ca POSTED ON JUNE 4, 2015 Fifteen-point plan flows from testimony, recommendations of Iran Accountability Week Ottawa – June 4, 2015 – MP Irwin Cotler today issued an Action Plan to combat human rights violations in…
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Iran’s Human Rights Trap and the Nuclear Deal
Source: en.iranwire.com Tuesday 31 March 2015 Mehrangiz Kar Have human rights been overshadowed by the feverish politics of nuclear negotiations? Sanctions imposed in 2011 have broken the back of the government. Iranians who suffered from mismanagement before…
Human Rights in Iran: Marginalized and Sanitized
Source: www.huffingtonpost.ca By Irwin Cotler 02/10/2015 As P5+1 proceeds, it is important to appreciate that the prevention of a “nuclear breakout” capability is inextricably intertwined with the Iranian regime’s ongoing massive repression of human rights. Indeed, negotiations…
FPI Fact Sheet: Iran’s Human Rights Violations under Rouhani
[foreignpolicyi.org] By FPI Senior Policy Analyst Patrick Christy & Policy Director Robert Zarate While U.S. policymakers and lawmakers are focused on reversing Iran’s nuclear threat, Iran continues to pose other serious challenges to America’s national security…
March 2014 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
[shaheedoniran.org] by Dr. Ahmad Shaheed 13/03/2014 Latest Reports March 2014 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, presented to the 25th Session of the Human…
Open Letter to President Obama by US Senators and Congressmen Concerning the Violation of Human Rights in Iran
In an open letter sent to President Obama yesterday, members of Congress expressed grave concerns regarding the human rights and religious freedom situation in Iran and urged the President to ensure that human…
Sadeq Larijani, Head of the Judicial System of Iran: We don’t have conflicts with Baha’is merely because someone is a Baha’i
[digarban] 20 Farvardin, 1393 – April 9, 2014 Sadeq Larijani*, Head of the Judicial System of Iran: We don’t have conflicts with Baha’is merely because someone is a Baha’i Sadeghi Larijani, Head of the Judicial…
Iran's Enduring Legacy of Violence and Denial
[huffingtonpost.ca, 1 Oct 2013] Payam Akhavan, Associate Professor, McGill University Elementary psychology teaches us that without confronting repressed memories of past trauma, a person’s future health and happiness is seriously compromised. It is common knowledge,…
President Rouhani's UN speech and the question of human rights in Iran
[news.bahai.org, 25 Sep 2013] NEW YORK — Having heard Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s address to the United Nations today, the world will be watching to see how he will, beyond his general call for hope…
Report reveals "grim picture" of human rights in Iran
[BWNS, 27 May 2012] WASHINGTON, D.C., United States — Iran’s human rights record continued to display “many negative trends” last year, according to a US government spokesman. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and…
Press Release: Worldwide Action for Iran’s Baha’i Seven
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE U4I media contact: Sarah Shourd, Advocate, [email protected], (510) 473-5923 U4I media contact: Roxana Saberi, journalist, U4I advisory board member, [email protected] Berlin, Germany Baha’i media contact: Alina Braml, [email protected], +49 (0) 30 24 72 32 17 Brazil…
UN monitor highlights failure of Iran's justice system
[BWNS 14 March 2012] GENEVA — The United Nations investigator into human rights in Iran has sharply criticized the country’s system of justice and human rights record. UN Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed told a meeting of…
Iran's human rights abuses condemned at national events
[BWNS, 21 Feb. 2012] WASHINGTON, D.C., United States — Recent national-level events held in the United States, Bulgaria and Canada reflect the ongoing global outcry at the Iranian authorities’ crackdown on Baha’is. A reception in the…
A Question of Interpretation — Shirin Ebadi: “Democracy means the government considers the rights of minorities.”
[majalla.com, 14 Feb. 2012] Human rights lawyer and Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, spoke with The Majalla on the relationship between religion and politics, the role of women in the Arab Spring, Iran’s controversial nuclear campaign…
Romanian personalities demand human rights for Iran's Baha'is
[BWNS, 25 Jan. 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania —Almost 70 prominent Romanians are calling upon the government of Iran to grant Baha’is their fundamental human rights. Sixty-eight celebrated figures – from the worlds of academia, arts, banking, business,…
UN investigator who revealed Iran's "Baha'i Question" memorandum dies aged 93
[BWNS, 10 Jan. 2012] SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador —Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, a noted legal scholar who uncovered significant evidence of human rights violations in Iran in the late 1980s and early 1990s, passed away here last…
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