{"id":1506,"date":"2011-12-19T23:34:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T04:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2011-12-20T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:00:56","slug":"un-condemnation-of-iran-reflects-growing-intolerance-for-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/un-condemnation-of-iran-reflects-growing-intolerance-for-human-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"UN condemnation of Iran reflects growing intolerance for human rights violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_8668\">\n<p>The UN Headquarters buildings in New York City. The UN General Assembly today condemned Iran for oppressing its citizens. &#8220;The Assembly&#8217;s vote this year makes absolutely clear the international community&#8217;s utter frustration with Iran&#8217;s continuing oppression of its citizens,&#8221; said Bani Dugal, principal representative of the Baha&#8217;i International Community to the United Nations. UN Photo\/Mark Garten.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[BWNS, 19 Dec. 2011]\u00a0UNITED NATIONS\u00a0\u2014 Reflecting the international community\u2019s increasing intolerance for human rights violations, the UN General Assembly today condemned Iran for oppressing its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By a vote of 89 to 30 with 64 abstentions, the Assembly approved a resolution that expressed \u201cdeep concern at serious ongoing and recurring human rights violations\u201d in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The vote came after Iran attempted a \u201cno-action motion,\u201d aimed at blocking the resolution by calling for adjournment of the debate. The motion failed by a vote of 100 against, 35 in favor, with 42 abstentions.<\/p>\n<p>Such resolutions on human rights in Iran have come before the Assembly virtually every year since 1992, and this year\u2019s measure \u2013 already approved by the General Assembly\u2019s Third Committee last month \u2013 passed by the widest margin yet seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Assembly\u2019s vote this year makes absolutely clear the international community\u2019s utter frustration with Iran\u2019s continuing oppression of its citizens,\u201d said Bani Dugal, principal representative of the Baha\u2019i International Community to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wide margin of this year\u2019s vote also reflects the international community\u2019s impatience with the violation of human rights everywhere, and an increased willingness of a growing number of nations to speak out on behalf of human rights,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Another factor in the large margin was the sense of frustration many nations felt over Iran\u2019s repeated refusal to cooperate with the UN in receiving special human rights investigators, said Ms. Dugal.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that Iran has not yet allowed a visit to the country from Ahmed Shaheed, the newly appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the appointment of Ahmed Shaheed, Iran has not welcomed him to the country and, in fact, has even questioned the legitimacy of his appointment,\u201d said Ms. Dugal.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s resolution expressed concern over a wide range of abuses in Iran, including \u201ca dramatic increase\u201d in executions, the use of torture, the systematic targeting of human rights defenders, pervasive violence against women, and continuing discrimination against minorities, including members of the Baha\u2019i Faith.<\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by 42 countries, the resolution specifically lists some 16 areas of concern, also including the \u201csystematic and serious restrictions on freedom of peaceful assembly\u201d and \u201csevere limitations and restrictions on the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About Baha\u2019is, the resolution noted \u201cescalating attacks on Baha\u2019is and their defenders.\u201d It reported \u201ca significant increase in the number of Baha\u2019is arrested and detained\u201d and \u201crenewed measures to deny Baha\u2019is employment in the public and private sectors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baha\u2019i World News Service coverage of the persecution of the Baha\u2019is in Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Baha\u2019i World News Service has published a Special Section which includes further articles and background information about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bahai.org\/human-rights\/iran\/education-special-report\/\">Iran\u2019s campaign to deny higher education to Baha\u2019is<\/a>. It contains news of latest developments, a summary of the situation, profiles of imprisoned Baha\u2019i educators, feature articles, case studies and testimonials from students, resources and links.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Another Special Report offers articles and background information about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bahai.org\/human-rights\/iran\/yaran-special-report\/\">seven Iranian Baha\u2019i leaders<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 their lives, their imprisonment, trial and sentencing \u2013 and the allegations made against them. It also offers further resources about the persecution of Iran\u2019s Baha\u2019i community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bahai.org\/human-rights\/iran\/iran-update\/international-reaction.html\">International Reaction<\/a>\u00a0page of the Baha\u2019i World News service is regularly updated with responses from governments, nongovernmental organizations, and prominent individuals, to actions taken against the Baha\u2019is of Iran.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bahai.org\/human-rights\/iran\/iran-update\/media-reports.html\">Media Reports<\/a>\u00a0page presents a digest of media coverage from around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bahai.org\/story\/876\">http:\/\/news.bahai.org\/story\/876<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Headquarters buildings in New York City. The UN General Assembly today condemned Iran for oppressing its citizens. &#8220;The Assembly&#8217;s vote this year makes absolutely clear the international community&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/un-condemnation-of-iran-reflects-growing-intolerance-for-human-rights-violations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[327],"tags":[321,320,318,25,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}