A/HRC/RES/58/21
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 April 2025
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-eighth session
24 February–4 April 2025
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 3 April 2025
58/21.
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 all relevant resolutions adopted by the Human Rights Council and the
General Assembly, particularly the most recent ones, including Council resolutions 55/19 of
4 April 2024 and S-35/1 of 24 November 2022, and Assembly resolution 79/183 of 17
December 2024 on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran,
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
emphasizing that the recommendations included in that report should be given due
consideration by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran,
Welcoming also the report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on
the Islamic Republic of Iran,2 established to investigate alleged human rights violations
related to the protests that began on 16 September 2022, especially with respect to women
and children,
Acknowledging the engagement between the Government of the Islamic Republic of
Iran and the Special Rapporteur, while regretting the continued lack of access to the country
granted to the Special Rapporteur and to the Fact-Finding Mission,
Welcoming the recent 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 United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human
Rights to the country in February 2024, while encouraging enhanced substantive technical
cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner,
Expressing concern at the continued violations of a wide range of civil, political,
economic, social and cultural rights, as highlighted by the Special Rapporteur and the FactFinding Mission, and expressing deep concern that sustained and systematic impunity for
gross violations of human rights and an absence of accountability in the Islamic Republic of
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A/HRC/58/62.
A/HRC/58/63.
GE.25-05473 (E)