A/RES/79/183
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
29. Calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to implement its obligations under
those human rights treaties to which it is already a party, to withdraw any reservations
that are imprecise or could be considered incompatible with the object and purpose
of the treaty, to act upon the concluding observations concerning the Islamic Republic
of Iran adopted by the bodies of the international human rights treaties to which it is
a party and to consider ratifying or acceding to the international human rights treat ies
to which it is not already a party;
30. Also calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to deepen its engagement with
international human rights mechanisms by:
(a) Cooperating fully with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including by accepting the repeated requests made by the
Special Rapporteur to visit the country in order to carry out the mandate, and to take under
consideration the conclusions and recommendations presented to the Government of the
Islamic Republic of Iran in reports by United Nations special procedures;
(b) Cooperating fully with the Independent International Fact-Finding
Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran, including by allowing unhindered access to
the country and to gather information critical to carrying out the mandate;
(c) Increasing cooperation with other special procedures, including by
facilitating long-standing requests for access to the country from thematic special
procedure mandate holders, whose access to its territory has been restricted or denied,
despite the standing invitation issued by the Islamic Republic of Iran, without
imposing undue conditions upon those visits;
(d) Continuing to enhance its cooperation with the treaty bodies, including by
submitting reports under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 14
the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities 15 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights 16 and the implementation of the recommendations from treaty bodies;
(e) Continuing to enhance its cooperation with all relevant United Nations
bodies to improve the promotion and protection of human rights in the Islamic
Republic of Iran;
(f) Implementing all accepted universal periodic review recommendations
from its first cycle, in 2010, its second cycle, in 2014, and its third cycle, in 2019,
with the full and genuine participation of independent civil society and other
stakeholders in the implementation process;
(g) Building upon the engagement of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the
universal periodic review process by continuing to explore cooperation on human
rights and justice reform with the United Nations, including the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;
(h) Following through on its long-standing commitment to establish an
independent national human rights institution in line with the principles relating to the
status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the
Paris Principles), 17 made in the context of its first, second and third universal periodic
reviews by the Human Rights Council, with due regard for the recommendation of the
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
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Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
16
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
17
General Assembly resolution 48/134, annex.
14
15
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