A/RES/78/220
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Afghan refugees, acknowledges efforts to provide them with access to basic services,
in particular health care, temporary work permits, and education for children, and
notes with concern the reports of discrimination, violence and limited access to basic
economic and social services of Afghan refugees;
3.
Also welcomes the ongoing efforts of the Islamic Republic of Iran to
implement 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, and calls for its full implementation;
4.
Further welcomes the engagement of the Islamic Republic of Iran with
human rights treaty bodies, including through the submission of periodic reports,
notes the continued engagement of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran
with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, while
encouraging enhanced substantive technical cooperation with the Office, and urges
the Islamic Republic of Iran to continue its engagement with the Committee on the
Rights of the Child, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the
Human Rights Committee and its participation in the universal periodic review,
including by submitting any outstanding periodic reports;
5.
Takes note of the appointment of the “Special Committee to investigate the
2022 unrests” by the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and reiterates the
statement made by the Chairperson of the Independent International Fact -Finding
Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran at the fifty-third session of the Human Rights
Council, that the work of the Special Committee should be looked at in the light of
international human rights law and standards applicable to domestic investigations,
including being prompt, independent and transparent;
6.
Acknowledges the announcement by the Government of the Islamic
Republic of Iran that 22,000 prisoners were pardoned in connection with the protests
that began in September 2022, while expressing serious concern at the circumstances
of those pardons, namely the reports that many of the detained protesters were
arbitrarily detained, submitted to forced confessions, and had their freedom of
peaceful assembly and association restricted, and reports that a number of individuals
pardoned received judicial summons on new charges or were re-arrested;
7.
Notes 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 its cooperation with select special procedure mandate
holders, while noting the limited scope of such cooperation to date and reaffirming
the importance of full cooperation with all special procedure mandate holders;
8.
Also notes 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;
9.
Emphasizes the importance of continuing discussions on prohibiting child,
early and forced marriage, female genital mutilation, the subjection of children to the
death penalty and to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment, and increasing the age of majority for boys and girls in the Islamic
Republic of Iran to 18 years;
10. Condemns the alarmingly high frequency of the imposition of the death
penalty and significant increase in the 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 and without fair trial
and due process, notably in the context of the protests that began in September 2022;
reiterates the concern that a number of offences carrying the death penalty do not
qualify as the most serious crimes, including drug-related offences, as well as other
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