It demonstrates that the Council is under the influence of human rights violators
Call on the UN Secretary General and the UN Human Rights Commissioner to designate a Special Rapporteur to monitor human right in Iran
It demonstrates that the Council is under the influence of human rights violators
Call on the UN Secretary General and the UN Human Rights Commissioner to designate a Special Rapporteur to monitor human right in Iran
The Iranian Resistance strongly condemns the decision by the U.N. Human Rights Council not to monitor the systematic and flagrant violation of human rights by a regime which is the world’s record holder of execution in Iran. The decision is the disgraceful domination of the Council by the countries which are themselves notorious violators of human rights and it is a catastrophe for human rights. In 2002, the same countries prevented the UN Human Rights Commission from condemning the Iranian regime’s human rights violations. Half of the members of a special committee which was formed to examine Iran’s human rights’ violations have abysmal records in human rights violations.
Only three months ago, in December 2006, The UN General Assembly adopted a strongly worded resolution, condemning the human rights violations by the Iranian regime. Therefore, yesterday’s vote by the members of the Council is contrary to the decision made by the highest international body. It farther indicates that the members of the Council in no way represent the international community.
The vote not to monitor the human rights violations by a regime which has been censured for the same abuses 53 times by the UN General Assembly as well as the UN Human Rights Commission so far is proof that the present composition of the UN Human Rights Council, a body which was formed to protect human rights, has already lost its credibility.
The UN General Assembly resolution last year condemned human rights violations, including arbitrary executions, torture and degrading punishments, violation of women’s rights as well as the rights of ethnic minorities, and the lack minim international standers in the regime’s courts.
Mollifying a regime which has executed more than 120,000 political prisoners in the past 27 years, has hanged 189 prisoners just last year, including women and juveniles, amputated limbs as well as gouged eyes and arrested 1,250,000 people last year, is a tragedy for the advocates of human rights and the international bodies whose task is to safeguard human rights.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations and personalities to protest against the UN Human Rights Council’s decision. It also urges the Secretary General of the United Nations and the UN Human High Commissioner for Human Rights to appoint a Special Representative to monitor human rights violations in Iran and not allow countries which abuse human rights to take internationally recognized human principles hostage.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 27, 2006
