A/RES/79/183
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
2.
Welcomes the efforts of the Islamic Republic of Iran to host one of the
largest refugee populations in the world, including over 3.7 million Afghan refugees,
asylum-seekers and Afghans in refugee-like situations according to figures reported
by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in June 2024,
acknowledges efforts to provide them with access to basic services, in particular
healthcare, temporary work permits and education for children, acknowledges
planned efforts for further protection of certain categories of migrants in vulnerable
situations and refugees in the country, including children, pregnant women, older
people and sick migrants, and notes with concern the reports of deportation of many
undocumented foreign nationals 8 and of discrimination, violence and limited access
to basic economic and social services for Afghan refugees;
3.
Also welcomes the engagement of the Islamic Republic of Iran with human
rights treaty bodies, including through the submission of periodic reports to the
Committee on the Rights of the Child in November 2023 and the Human Rights
Committee in October 2023, and the participation in its review before the Committee
on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in August 2024, notes the continued
engagement of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, including through dialogue
and the visit of the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Islamic
Republic of Iran in February 2024, while encouraging enhanced substantive technical
cooperation with the Office, and urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to continue its
engagement with relevant treaty bodies and its participation in the universal periodic
review, including by submitting outstanding periodic reports and fully considering all
recommendations received from all relevant human rights treaty bodies;
4.
Takes note of the outcome in July 2024 of the Iranian presidential
elections, stresses the importance of free and fair elections, and encourages the newly
elected President to undertake concrete steps to improve the human rights situation
in the Islamic Republic of Iran;
5.
Welcomes the directive of November 2023 on “Referring to international
human rights conventions in judicial decisions” that instructs judges to align their
decisions with the international human rights obligations of the Islamic Republic of
Iran, and calls for its full implementation;
6.
Acknowledges cooperation by the Islamic Republic of Iran with select
special procedure mandate holders, while noting the limited scope of such
cooperation to date and reaffirming the importance of full and unhindered cooperation
with all special procedure mandate holders, including the Special Rapporteur on the
situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran;
7.
Notes the expressed readiness of the Iranian High Council for Human
Rights and other Iranian officials to engage in bilateral dialogues on human rights,
and calls upon them to increase such dialogues or resume those that have been paused;
8.
Acknowledges the reports by the Government of the Islamic Republic of
Iran of the revocation of the death penalty in a limited number of cases, notably for
qisas (retribution in kind) following efforts by the Dispute and Resolution Councils,
and instances of the release of prisoners who were detained for non -intentional
crimes, while expressing serious concern at the circumstances of the revocations and
releases;
9.
Condemns in the strongest terms the alarming increase in the application of
the death penalty by the Islamic Republic of Iran in violation of its international
obligations, including executions undertaken against persons on the basis of forced
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