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Iran Progressive Youth Essay Competition
Iran Progressive Youth is sponsoring an essay competition to elaborate on bringing about democratic change in Iran. Below are the details: Prospect of Change in Iran […]
Wave of Repression in Iran
IRAN: Series of sentences, acts of judicial harassment and arbitrary detentions of human rights defenders Paris-Geneva, February 8, 2011. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human
HRW Releases Report on the State of Human Rights in the World
More than 6000 arrests were made in Iran following the flawed elections in 2009
Report on the Human Rights Council
The Democracy Coalition Project recently issued a report reviewing the effectiveness of the Human Rights Council. They noted that despite concern about the human rights situation in Iran, no country mandate was established to review the situation there.
Jasmine and Fire
As Tunisia struggles to develop a civil society that can fill the hole left by the dictatorial regime, Egyptians have taken to the streets. MideastYouth.com is following the story from Egypt here. The blogger states: In brief, Tunisia has made people, not only
Guidelines for Documenting Human Rights Violations
The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center has published guideline for documenting human rights violations in English (PDF) and Persian (PDF).
Who is Speaking Out About Human Rights Abuses in Iran?
Writing in the Huffington Post, Hadi Ghaemi and Aaron Rhodes of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran write about the politicization of human rights and the equivocation of the international community when dealing with abuses of those rights. The
Hivos Concerned about Treatment of Peaceful Activists
Hivos expresses concern about the conviction of two women held for six months simply for collecting signatures as part of the one-million signature campaign, a campaign to change Iran’s discriminatory laws against women. This is the first time that the judicia
“Confessions of Prisoners not Valid”
The Financial Times reports that Grand Ayatollah Hossein Vahid Khorasani has told his students that the confessions of prisoners are not valid in courts of law. “Confessions of prisoners have no validity, and if a judge uses confessions for issuing verdicts th