The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted, on 19 November 2025, resolution A/C.3/80/L.30 on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The draft, introduced by Canada and carrying no programme budget implications, was approved by 79 votes in favour, 28 against and 63 abstentions, …
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Date: 28 October 2025 To the Members of the Third Committee United Nations General Assembly New York, NY Your Excellencies, We, the undersigned, a group of human rights defenders, civil society activists, and families of victims of human rights violations in Iran — express our deepest concern over the intensifying …
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A/HRC/59/NGO/259 Human Rights Council Fifty-ninth session 16 June–11 July 2025 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 …
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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 …
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01 April 2025 The undersigned organizations express deep concern regarding the health and safety of Dr. Mahrang Baloch, a Baloch human rights defender arrested by Pakistani Balochistan police on 22 March 2025 during a peaceful assembly. Dr. Mahrang Baloch is currently detained under troubling conditions at Hudda District Jail, where …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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