A/HRC/RES/49/24
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 April 2022
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-ninth session
28 February–1 April 2022
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 1 April 2022
49/24.
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant international human
rights instruments,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 16/9 of 24 March 2011, 19/12 of 3 April
2012, 22/23 of 22 March 2013, 25/24 of 28 March 2014, 28/21 of 27 March 2015, 31/19 of
23 March 2016, 34/23 of 24 March 2017, 37/30 of 23 March 2018, 40/18 of 15 March 2019,
43/24 of 22 June 2020 and 46/18 23 March 2021, General Assembly resolution 76/178 of 16
December 2021 and all previous resolutions of the Assembly on the situation of human rights
in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and regretting the lack of cooperation of the Islamic Republic
of Iran with the requests of the Council and the Assembly made in those resolutions,
Welcoming the report and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the situation
of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran submitted to the Human Rights Council,1 and
expressing serious concern at the developments noted in that report and the lack of access
permitted to the Special Rapporteur to travel to the Islamic Republic of Iran,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on the institution-building of the
Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedure Mandate Holders of the
Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that mandate holders are to discharge their duties in
accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
1.
Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran for a further period of one year, and requests the
Special Rapporteur to submit a report on the implementation of the mandate to the Human
Rights Council at its fifty-second session and to the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh
session;
2.
Calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate fully
with the Special Rapporteur and to permit access to visit the country, and to provide all
information necessary to allow the fulfilment of the mandate;
3.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with the
resources necessary to fulfil the mandate.
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A/HRC/49/75.
GE.22-05089(E)