A/RES/67/182
United Nations
Distr.: General
20 March 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 69 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/457/Add.3 and Corr.1)]
67/182. 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 66/175 of
19 December 2011,
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to
1.
resolution 66/175, 3 in which he notes that he is deeply troubled by the fact that
human rights violations continue in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the report of
the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of
Iran 4 submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 16/9 of 24 March
2011, 5 which provides a deeply troubling picture of the overall human rights
situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran and catalogues reports of a wide range of
human rights violations, many of them systematic;
Expresses deep concern at serious ongoing and recurring human rights
2.
violations in the 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 alarming high frequency of the carrying-out of the death
penalty in the absence of internationally recognized safeguards, including an
increase in the number of public executions, notwithstanding the issuance of a
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
A/67/327.
4
A/67/369.
5
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. II,
sect. A.
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