Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi says human rights in Iran are bad or even worse under President Hassan Rohani than they were under former President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. Ebadi said the difference is that Ahmadinejad worked to limit human rights, while Rohani has vowed to ease restrictions of expression and eliminate discrimination against women […]
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Media Advisory: Iran must clean up human rights record at UN review
Spokesperson available for interview in Geneva On 31 October, the UN Human Rights Council will undertake an assessment of Iran’s human rights record under the Universal Periodic Review process (UPR). During Iran’s last review in 2010, the authorities accepted a string of recommendations to improve the country’s track record on human rights, but so […]