Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—15 November 2023—Yet again and for the 36th time, a United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolution expressing serious concern over the situation of Baha’is in Iran and other religious minorities, and calling on the…
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BIC New York: UN Calls on Iran to End Religious Discrimination
Source: news.bahai.org BIC NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly has called on the Iranian government to end its discrimination of minorities in Iran, including of the Bahá’í community, Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. The…
UN Committee Passes Resolution Calling on Iran to Eliminate Religious Discrimination
Source: www.bic.org A committee of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly has again called on the Iranian government to end its discrimination of minorities in Iran, including the Baha’i community, Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. Similar…
International support for Iran’s Baha’is highlights growing rights violations
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—16 December 2020—A United Nations resolution calling on the Islamic Republic of Iran to respect the rights of its citizens—and which refers to the violations faced by Iranian Baha’is—passed today at the…
UN Passes Resolution Condemning Human Rights Violations in Iran
Source: www.bic.org NEW YORK—18 November 2020—In spite of the ongoing pandemic, a committee of the United Nations General Assembly considered and approved a resolution today calling on Iran to observe human rights for all its citizens,…
UN Adopts Resolution Condemning Iran’s Human Rights Violations
Source: en.radiofarda.com The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution December 18 calling on Iran to end its ongoing human rights violations. The resolution passed with a vote of 81 to 30 and 70 abstentions.…
UN to Iran: End human rights violations against Baha’is
Source: news.bahai.org BIC NEW YORK — Iran has once again been condemned by the international community for its ongoing human rights violations. A United Nations General Assembly committee has expressed its serious concern about the country’s…
UN Resolution Calls for End to Iran’s Rights Violations Against Baha’is
Source: news.bahai.org UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly called on Iranian authorities to end ongoing human rights violations against the Baha’is in Iran. A resolution, adopted Thursday by a vote of 85 to 30, with 68…
For 30th time, UN General Assembly Censures Iran for Persecution of Baha’is
Source: news.bahai.org UNITED NATIONS — On Tuesday 19 December 2017, the United Nations General Assembly called on Iran to end ongoing violations of human rights, including its persecution of members of the Baha’i Faith, the country’s largest…
Iran Attempts to Deflect Responsibility in Criticizing UN Resolution on Country’s Human Rights Record
Source: www.iranhumanrights.org Iran has responded to a draft UN resolution condemning the country’s human rights record by attempting to deflect responsibility and verbally criticizing the sponsors of the draft. After UN member states adopted the draft resolution by the UN’s…
UN Condemns Iran’s Human Rights Violations for 30th Time
Source: news.bahai.org UNITED NATIONS — A committee of the United Nations General Assembly today condemned Iran for its continuing violations of human rights, the 30th such resolution since 1985. By a vote of 83 to 30 with…
UN General Assembly Rebukes Iran for Human Rights Record
Source: www.news.bahai.org NEW YORK — Today the international community firmly denounced a wide range of human rights violations in Iran. By a vote of 85 to 35 with 63 abstentions, the United Nations General Assembly approved…
UN Condemns Iran’s Harassment of Its Religious Monitories, Particularly Bahá’ís
Source: www.ecumenicalnews.com By Peter Kenny The Nov. 15 rebuke was the 29th such censure since 1985 for the Islamic Republic of Iran. It came in an annual resolution on human rights in Iran, approved by a…
Iran’s Human Rights Failures Condemned by World Community
Source: news.bahai.org 16 November 2016 UNITED NATIONS — The UN yesterday expressed serious concerns about “severe limits” on the right to freedom of religion or belief in Iran, and specifically about the ongoing persecution of Iranian…
Ongoing Human Rights Violations in Iran Spotlighted in UN Vote
Source: news.bahai.org 18 December 2015 UNITED NATIONS — Last month, 20 Baha’is were arrested by the Iranian authorities, which also carried out a series of coordinated shop closures, affecting some 28 Baha’i-owned businesses. Today the UN…
UN Condemns Iran for Continuing Human Rights Violations
Source: news.bahai.org UNITED NATIONS — The UN expressed “serious concern” yesterday over Iran’s continuing human rights violations, affirming that increased engagement with the international community on some fronts does not mean that Iran is no longer…
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