Geneva, 16 June 2025 The Zagros Human Rights Center expresses its deep concern over the military conflict between Iran and Israel, now entering its fourth day. This escalation poses a serious threat to regional peace and stability and risks triggering a large-scale humanitarian crisis. Strikes have already hit several urban …
Read More »Urgent Appeal – Mass Executions in Iran: Kurds and Baluch Targeted Amid Complicit Silence
The Zagros Center for Human Rights expresses deep concern over the alarming escalation of executions targeting Kurdish and Baluch prisoners in Iran. These executions, carried out within a context of systematic political repression, occur as the Islamic Republic of Iran appears to exploit the international community’s silence and diplomatic engagements …
Read More »Statement by 45 Civil Society and Human Rights Groups Ahead of the Rome Talks
Freedom and Human Dignity: Prerequisites for Peace Statement from Civil Society and Human Rights Organizations, Groups, and Networks on the Eve of the Rome Negotiations To the Governments Participating in the Rome Nuclear Negotiations, The United Nations, the European Union, International Human Rights Institutions, and Global Public Opinion On …
Read More »Statement submitted by Centre Zagros : The situation of women in Iran
Commission on the Status of Women Sixty-ninth session 10–21 March 2025 Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” Statement submitted by Centre Zagros pour les Droits …
Read More »Participation Report of the Centre Zagros pour les Droits de l’Homme at CSW69 / Beijing+30
Venue: United Nations Headquarters, New YorkDates: 10–21 March 2025Organized by: Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) General Context In 2025, the international community commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) during the 69th session of the …
Read More »Report on the Side-Event: Representation and Self-Representation of Minorities in Iran, Iraq, and Syria in Public Spaces and Discourses
Introduction The side event held on November 29, 2024, during the Minorities Forum focused on the theme of representation and self-representation of minorities in Iran, Iraq, and Syria in public spaces and discourses. This event, organized by the Zagros Human Rights Center (Centre Zagros pour les Droits de l’Homme) in …
Read More »Joint Statement of Human Rights Organizations Condemning the Death Sentence of Pakhshan Azizi: We Demand the Immediate and Unconditional Revocation of Pakhshan Azizi’s Death Sentence and Her Release.
We, the undersigned human rights organizations, express our deep concern and strong objection to the situation of all political prisoners in the Islamic Republic of Iran who are sentenced to or at risk of being sentenced to death, and we fundamentally oppose this inhumane and cruel punishment for all individuals. …
Read More »Iran: UN experts alarmed by surge in executions, demand moratorium on death penalty
September 02, 2024 GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed alarm over a surge in executions during the month of August 2024 and urged the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately stop the execution of people facing the death penalty. At least 81 individuals were executed in August, twice as many …
Read More »Written statement : The Situation of the Kurds in Iran
Human Rights Council Fifty-seventh session 9 September–9 October 2024 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Written statement submitted by Centre Zagros pour les Droits de l’Homme, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status The …
Read More »Minorities in Iran have been disproportionally impacted in ongoing crackdown to repress the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, UN Fact-Finding Mission says
05 August 2024 Ethnic and religious minorities in Iran, in particular Kurd and Baluch minorities, have been disproportionally impacted by the Government’s crackdown on protesters since 2022, the direct result of long-standing discrimination that must end immediately, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said in a new advocacy paper …
Read More »Press Release: NGOs Platform for Monitoring the Human Rights of Kurds in Iran
We are pleased to announce the creation of the “NGOs Platform for Monitoring the Human Rights of Kurds in Iran – KHRMI”. This coalition has been formed by six active human rights organizations, driven by a deep sense of responsibility in this critical phase. The organizations involved are : Kurdish …
Read More »Announcing the Launch of the Global Network to Free Political Prisoner in Iran
The Global Network to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (GNFPPI) has been officially launched with its inaugural meeting held on July 21, 2024. This network serves as a platform for collective efforts aimed at securing the freedom of political prisoners. It provides a space for collaboration and the sharing of …
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