A/RES/74/167
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70 (c)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
situations and reports of special rapporteurs and
representatives
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.3)]
74/167.
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 73/181 of 17 December 2018,
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to
resolution 73/181 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 40/18 of 22 March 2019; 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 significant decline in the number of executions in 2018, 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/74/273.
A/74/188.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/74/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
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