A/HRC/RES/43/24
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 July 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-third session
24 February–13 March and 15–23 June 2020
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 22 June 2020
43/24.
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 and 40/18 of 22 March
2019, General Assembly resolution 74/167 of 18 December 2019, 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 made
by the Council and the Assembly 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 Procedures 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 forty-sixth session and to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth
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;
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