A/RES/63/191
United Nations
Distr.: General
24 February 2009
General Assembly
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 64 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/430/Add.3 and Corr.1)]
63/191. 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,
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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 62/168 of
18 December 2007,
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to
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its resolution 62/168, 3 which highlights a broad range of serious human rights
violations, legal and institutional gaps and impediments to the protection of human
rights and which discusses some positive developments in a few areas;
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Expresses its deep concern at serious human rights violations in the
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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 of executions carried out in the absence of
internationally recognized safeguards, including public executions and executions of
juveniles;
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stoning;
Persons in prison who continue to face sentences of execution by
(d) Arrests, violent repression and sentencing of women exercising their
right to peaceful assembly, a campaign of intimidation against women’s human
rights defenders, and continuing discrimination against women and girls in law and
in practice;
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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A/63/459.
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