{"id":737,"date":"2015-03-27T17:52:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T17:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=737"},"modified":"2015-03-27T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T17:52:26","slug":"un-keeps-pressure-on-iran-for-its-rights-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"UN Keeps Pressure on Iran for its Rights Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iransos.com\/en\/photo\/2011\/a\/ahmad-shahid-un.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"121\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">March 27, 2015\u2014The United Nations Human Rights Council voted today to renew the mandate of Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, signaling the international community\u2019s continued concern over the state of human rights in Iran. The resolution to renew the mandate received 20 votes in favor, 11 against, and 16 abstentions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->\u201cThe vote\u2019s message is loud and clear: four years after the establishment of the mandate, Dr. Shaheed\u2019s work is not done,\u201d said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. \u201cThe most basic rights and freedoms continue to be routinely violated in Iran.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Campaign welcomed two new developments in the vote call: El Salvador, a new member to the Human Rights Council, voted in favor of the resolution, and Gabon, who had voted against it last year, shifted its vote to a yes. Japan voted for the resolution, even though it has a bilateral human rights dialogue with Iran, noting, \u201cprogress is not easily observed at present.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Campaign noted with dismay that Brazil, a longtime supporter of the mandate, changed its vote to an abstention, despite Iran\u2019s continued refusal to allow the Special Rapporteur to enter the country and Iran\u2019s lack of implementation of the vast majority of the recommendations from the UN\u2019s Universal Periodic Review.<br \/>\nThe vote to renew the mandate followed Dr. Shaheed\u2019s presentation of his report on human rights in Iran to the UN Human Rights Council on March 16, 2015.<br \/>\nRead the report here (PDF)<br \/>\nIn the report, Dr. Shaheed expressed grave concern that the number of executions in Iran in 2014 had reached its highest level in 12 years, and noted deteriorations in women\u2019s rights, minority rights, online freedoms, and the ongoing imprisonment of hundreds of prisoners of conscience.<br \/>\nIn a report similarly critical of Iran\u2019s human rights record released on March 3, 2015, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also detailed his concerns over the ongoing application of the death penalty, retaliation against activists cooperating with the UN, and worrisome developments in the treatment of women.<br \/>\n\u201cIran can begin improving its rights situation by allowing Dr. Shaheed into the country to conduct his work, a permission that has been denied throughout the four years of the mandate,\u201d said Gissou Nia, deputy director of the Campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the\u00a0Campaign on Facebook and Twitter<br \/>\nFor the latest human rights developments in Iran visit the Campaign\u2019s website<br \/>\nFor interviews, contact:<br \/>\nHadi Ghaemi at +1-917-669-5996, hadighaemi@iranhumanrights.org<br \/>\nGissou Nia at +1-203-654-9342,\u00a0gissou.nia@iranhumanrights.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 27, 2015\u2014The United Nations Human Rights Council voted today to renew the mandate of Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,205,204],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","tag-dr-ahmed-shaheed","tag-un-human-rights-council","tag-un-special-rapporteur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}