by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Mar 2025 | News
The UN’s fact-finding mission (FFM) on Iran says it has only “scratched the surface” in “exposing the structural and institutional discrimination” against religious minorities, and called for the establishment of a follow-up body to investigate these and other rights...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Mar 2025 | News
Article18 has joined over 40 other rights groups and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi in calling for the renewal of the mandate of the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran. In a joint letter sent to UN Human Rights Council members this morning, ahead...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Mar 2025 | News
Photographs have emerged in recent days showing the deterioration of a once renowned hospital in Iran that was founded and named after Christian missionaries. The “Missionary Hospital” in Kerman, southeastern Iran, which was built in the early 1900s, has not been used...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Mar 2025 | Analysis
Having a place of worship has been described as an “integral” part of religious freedom at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The comment was made by the World Evangelical Alliance’s (WEA) Janet Epp Buckingham in her introductory address to the 5 March side event,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Mar 2025 | News
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran says religious and ethnic minorities in the country “face systemic discrimination, including arbitrary detention [and] unfair trials”. In her first report to the Human Rights...
