Publications related to Iranian Kurdistan

Jun 14, 2023

UNPO Presents a Joint Submission Addressing Human Rights Situation in Iran to the UN

The comprehensive joint submission delves into critical topics and provides recorded cases and evidence that highlight the human rights violations experienced by these communities in Iran. The submission addresses various forms of discrimination faced by minority communities in Iran. These include the overall issue of the death penalty, the lack of freedom of assembly and association, the right to...

Jun 14, 2023

UNPO Presents a Joint Submission Addressing Human...

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) has collaborated with the Association of Human Rights in Kurdistan - Geneva (KMMK-G), the Ahwaz Human Rights Organization (AHRO), and the Balochistan...

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Jul 15, 2022

UNPO Submits To UN Zara Mohammadi Case Following...

Zara Mohammadi, 29, was arrested initially in 2019 and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for heading an organisation, the Nojin Cultural Association. She was detained by plain-clothes agents believed...

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Jun 15, 2022

UNPO Presents Submission To UN Special Rapporteur...

Between 40 and 50% of the Iranian population belong to ethnolinguistic minorities that differs from the dominant Farsi (Persian)-speakers. This makes Iran a mosaic of languages, cultures and political...

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Feb 11, 2022

UNPO calls on EU to listen to voices of Iranian...

  The UNPO's submission can be read in full below or downloaded here.   Recognize the demand of ordinary citizens in Iran for the abolition of the death penalty and its disproportionate use...

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Oct 26, 2021

Iran : UNPO Joint Submission To Special Rapporteur...

In our report, covering updates since June 2021, we detailed the increase in executions and killings by the regime. For example, we reported on the recent protests in several cities in Khuzestan (Ahwaz)...

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Apr 15, 2021

Compromised Space: Foreign State Reprisals against...

Based on the experience of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), this report outlines reprisals suffered by European citizens and residents, on the sovereign territories of Europe,...

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Jan 08, 2021

Compromised Space: COVID-19 and exclusion of unrepresented...

Building on the 2019 report Compromised Space: Bullying and Blocking at the UN Human Rights Mechanisms, this report documents the challenges that “unrepresented diplomats” have faced in the...

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Jan 09, 2018

UNPO’s Alternative UPR Report on Iran Denounces...

To read the full UNPO Alternative UPR Report on Iran, click here. On 19 March 2017, the Iranian Parliament approved the ‘Law on the Sixth Five-Year Economic, Cultural, and Social Development Plan...

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Oct 13, 2015

UNPO “Justice for Iran’s Kurds” Report Marks...

  As mentioned by most speakers, the lack of information concerning Iranian Kurdistan in mainstream media hides systematic and widespread violations of the community’s fundamental rights. The...

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Feb 27, 2015

UNPO Alternative Report to CRC Highlights the...

The Alternative Report aims to examine the compliance with and implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the Iranian Government, focusing especially on children of the Ahwazi Arab,...

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Mar 19, 2013

Three Human Rights Reports To Shed Light On Persecution...

UNPO has recently submitted three reports on the occasion of the 50th Session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights due to take place in Geneva, from 29 April - 17 May 2013. The Committee...

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Apr 24, 2012

UNPO Report Outlines Threats to Indigenous Peoples’...

  UNPO has submitted an Alternative Report to the UN Committee on Cultural, Economic, and Social Rights (CESCR) ahead of Iran’s review at the 49th Session in May 2012.  This report to...

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Sep 29, 2011

UNPO UN Report Outlines Civil And Political Rights...

UNPO has submitted an Alternative Report to the UN Human Rights Committee ahead of Iran’s review under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) at the 103rd Session in October...

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Dec 22, 2010

UNPO Delegation Makes Impact At UN Forum

  22 December 2010   Two UNPO staff members led a delegation of over 20 representatives of 11 minority groups to participate in the Forum, which took place over the course of three days at...

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