A/HRC/RES/31/19
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 April 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-first session
Agenda item 4
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 23
March 2016
31/19. 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 its 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 and 28/21 of 27 March 2015, General Assembly
resolution 70/45 of 17 December 2015 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 Human Rights 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 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 his mandate to the
Human Rights Council at its thirty-fourth session and to the General Assembly at its
seventy-first session;
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A/HRC/31/69.
GE.16-06467(E)
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