A/RES/64/176
United Nations
Distr.: General
26 March 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 69 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/439/Add.3)]
64/176. Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, as well as the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants on Human Rights 2 and
other international human rights instruments,
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Recalling its previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in the
Islamic Republic of Iran, the most recent of which is resolution 63/191 of
18 December 2008,
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to
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resolution 63/191, 3 which highlights many areas of continuing concern with respect
to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran and
notes with particular concern negative developments in the area of civil and political
rights since June 2008, and which discusses some positive achievements with
respect to economic and social indicators;
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Expresses deep concern at serious ongoing and recurring human rights
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violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran relating to, inter alia:
(a) Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,
including flogging and amputations;
(b) The continuing high incidence and increase in the rate of executions
carried out in the absence of internationally recognized safeguards, including public
executions and executions of juveniles;
(c) Stoning as a method of execution and persons in prison who continue to
face sentences of execution by stoning, notwithstanding a circular from the head of
the judiciary prohibiting stoning;
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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A/64/357.
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