A/RES/75/191
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 72 (c)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs
and representatives
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/478/Add.3, para. 39)]
75/191.
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,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in the Islamic
Republic of Iran, the most recent of which is resolution 74/167 of 18 December 2019,
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to
resolution 74/167 3 and the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights
Council on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 4 submitted
pursuant to Council resolution 43/24 of 22 June 2020; 5
2.
Recalls the pledges made by the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
with regard to improving the human rights situation in the country;
3.
Notes the continuing decline in the number of executions, notably due to
the reduction in the number of executions for drug-related offences, following
amendments to the Anti-Narcotics Law, passed in October 2017;
4.
Welcomes the approval in May 2018 by the Parliament of the Islamic
Republic of Iran of the Law for the Protection of the Rights of Persons with
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
A/75/287.
A/75/213.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/75/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
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