Women’s Rights Documents
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UN Secretary General’s February 2015 Report on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
A/HRC/28/26 Distr.: General 20 February 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth session Agenda item 2 Annual report of the…
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English Translation of Books I & II of the New Islamic Penal Code
(April 8, 2014) – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) is pleased to release the first-ever comprehensive English translation…
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UN Secretary General on the situation of human rights in Iran – 11 March 2014
A/HRC/25/75 Distr.: General 11 March 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-fifth session Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that…
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Why Iranian Women Can’t Have Any of It
Originally published at http://opencanada.org/features/the-think-tank/comments/why-iranian-women-cant-have-any-of-it/ In recent weeks, the political theater of women registering as presidential candidates in the Islamic Republic of Iran, followed…
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Gender Inequality and Discrimination: The Case of Iranian Women
(March 8, 2013) -- Today, on this year's International Women's Day, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) is pleased…
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All you need to know: A Quick Breakdown of Findings from Dr. Ahmed Shaheed’s Latest Report to the UN Human Rights Council (February 2013)
(March 1, 2013) — Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of…
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The Execution of Women in Iranian Criminal Law: an Examination of the Impact of Gender on Laws Concerning Capital Punishment in the New Islamic Penal Code
In this legal commentary from the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, Maryam Hosseinkhah, writer and women's rights defender, examines the…
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Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran – 3-20-2012
A/HRC/19/82 Distr.: General 20 March 2012 Original: English Human Rights Council Nineteenth session Agenda item 2 Annual report of…
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Mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran is Renewed by Human Rights Council
(22 March 2012) – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) commends the decision of the Human Rights Council this…
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All you need to know: a quick breakdown of findings from Dr. Ahmed Shaheed’s UN report
(7 March 2012) -- Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of…
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