Child Rights
Child Rights
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Rights of the Child in Iran: March 2015 Joint Stakeholder Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Last week, twenty-one human rights and civil society organizations including the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) presented a joint…
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Life and Death: Survivor Accounts from Iran’s Kurdish Regions Post-Revolution
(July 1, 2014) – This witness statement compilation serves as a companion package to Haunted Memories: The Islamic Republic’s Executions…
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Witness Statement of Mother Shaheed
In this witness statement, Mother Shaheed—a Kurdish homemaker formerly residing in Mahabad—describes the execution of her daughter in 1981. Her…
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Witness Statement of Gelawij Heidari
In this witness statement, Gelawij Heidari—a Kurdish homemaker from Paveh—recounts the Iranian central government’s military attack on the Kurdish region…
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Witness Statement of Farkhondeh
In this witness statement, Farkhondeh—a Kurdish homemaker—describes the execution of her son by Iranian authorities a year after the Iranian…
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Witness Statement of Farhad Sarhangi
In this witness statement, Farhad Sarhangi—a former Kurdish peshmerga—recalls his numerous arrests and imprisonments in Iran in the early 1980s.…
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English Translation of Books I & II of the New Islamic Penal Code
(April 8, 2014) – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) is pleased to release the first-ever comprehensive English translation…
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IHRDC’s Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review
On March 15, 2014, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) submitted an analysis of the new Islamic Penal Code…
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Witness Statement of Zaynab Bayazidi
(September 30, 2013) -- In her first, full-length witness interview since her escape from Iran, former political prisoner Zaynab Bayazidi--a…
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Infant Sons of Two Bahá'í Mothers Imprisoned in Semnan Facing Medical Complications
(3 January 2013) – The infants of two Bahá’í mothers imprisoned in Semnan in Iran have been transferred to hospital…
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