High Council for Human Rights
High Council for Human Rights of the
Islamic Republic of Iran
Logo of the Council featuring Qur'an verse and cuneiform script from Cyrus Cylinder
Agency overview
Formed2005
HeadquartersTehran
MottoArabic: وَلَقَدْ کَرَّمْنَا بَنِی آدَمَ "And indeed We have honoured the Children of Adam" [Quran 17:70]
Agency executives
Parent agencyJudicial Power of Iran
Websitehumanrights.ir/en

High Council for Human Rights (Persian: ستاد حقوق بشر, Sitad-e Heqâvâq-e Beshir) is the governmental national human rights institution of Iran, subdivision to the Judiciary of Iran.[1]

Positions

The council rejects and condemns appointment of Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran by United Nations[2] and strongly opposes the western countries' positions about current human rights situation in Iran. It also assumes the "true face" of human rights should be sought through Islam.[3]

The council has challenged laws against Holocaust denial, spread of Islamophobia, forced unveiling in schools, specifically in France as being against human rights.[1]

The council has condemned the Nobel Prize Committee for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to a "criminal" Narges Mohamamadi in 2023.[4]

The entrance door of the High Council for Human Rights of Iran building.

Leadership

According to the approval of the Supreme National Security Council, new members were added to this council in the winter of 2023. The new members of the Judicial Branch’s Human Rights Council include the head of the IRGC Intelligence Organization, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, and the Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, among the new members of the Human Rights Council.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Is Iran judiciary open to negotiating on human rights?". Al-Monitor. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Official Calls Appointment of UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran "Unjustified"". Tasnim News Agency. 4 September 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Islam can present 'true face' of human rights: Iran". Tehran Times. 31 July 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  4. ^ "حمایت از زنان ایران در ادامه واکنش‌های گسترده و جهانی به نوبل صلح نرگس محمدی" [Supporting the women of Iran in the continuation of the widespread and global reactions to Narges Mohammadi's Nobel Peace Prize]. 8 October 2023. Archived from the original on 7 October 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  5. ^ «افزایش اعضای ستاد حقوق بشر قوه قضائیه؛ رئیس سازمان اطلاعات سپاه پاسداران به این ستاد پیوست». BBC News فارسی. دریافت‌شده در ۲۰۲۳-۰۱-۱۴.
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