A/RES/74/167
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Disabilities and subsequent discussions regarding its implementation, and urges the
authorities to work together with civil society to ensure that sufficient State funds are
allocated for its implementation and monitoring;
5.
Also welcomes the continuing efforts of the Islamic Republic of Iran to
host a large number of Afghans, including approximately 1 million registered
refugees, and to provide them with access to basic services, in particular health care
and education for children;
6.
Further welcomes the commitments made by the Iranian authorities with
regard to improving the situation of women, and notes the ongoing discuss ions
regarding the comprehensive bill on ensuring the protection of women against
violence and the ratification of the amendment to the Nationality Law, which gives
Iranian women married to men with foreign nationality the right to request Iranian
citizenship for their children under the age of 18 years;
7.
Welcomes the engagement of the Islamic Republic of Iran with human
rights treaty bodies, including through the submission of periodic reports, and notes
in particular the engagement of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran with
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the
Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities and its participation in the universal periodic re view;
8.
Also welcomes the ongoing contact with and dialogue between the Islamic
Republic of Iran and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the
Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as the invitations extended to other special procedure
mandate holders;
9.
Further welcomes the expressed readiness of the Iranian High Council for
Human Rights and other Iranian officials to engage in bilateral dialogues on human
rights, and calls upon them to increase such dialogues or resume those that have been
paused;
10. Expresses serious concern, notwithstanding the previously noted
reduction in the number of executions, notably for drug-related crimes, at the
alarmingly high frequency of the imposition and carrying-out of the death penalty by
the Islamic Republic of Iran, in violation of its international obligations, including
executions undertaken against persons on the basis of forced confessions or for crimes
that do not qualify as the most serious crimes, including crimes that are overly broad
or vaguely defined, in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, 2 expresses concern at the continuing disregard for internationally recognized
safeguards, including executions undertaken without notification of the prisoner ’s
family members or legal counsel, and calls upon the Government of the Islamic
Republic of Iran to abolish, in law and in practice, public e xecutions, which are
contrary to the 2008 directive seeking to end this practice issued by the former head
of the judiciary;
11. Also expresses serious concern at the continued imposition of the death
penalty by the Islamic Republic of Iran against minors, and urges the Islamic Republic
of Iran to cease the imposition of the death penalty against minors, including persons
who at the time of their offence were under the age of 18, in violation of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 and to commute the sentences for child
offenders on death row;
12. Calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to ensure, in law and in practice,
that no one is subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment, which may include sexual violence, and punishments that are grossly
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