WOMEN’S RIGHTS
IOPHR’s Letter to the Deputy Commissioner of the European Commission and High Representative of the European Union in Foreign Policy and Security Affairs, in regards to making any agreement with the ruling regime of Iran firmly conditional on the regime’s strict compliance with international human rights standards
To the Deputy Commissioner of the European Commission and High Representative of the European Union in Foreign Policy and Security Affairs: Dear Mr. Joseph Burrell, The IOPHR, as you might be aware, has repeatedly emphasised the necessity of inclusion of human rights, as...
Free Maryam Akbari Monfared – unjustly imprisoned for 13 years!
IOPHR has initiated a petition for the unjustly imprisoned human rights activist Maryam Akbari Monfared. See below: Maryam’s Story Iranian Human Rights Activist Maryam Akbari Monfared was arrested on 31 December 2009 and was forcibly disappeared for five months. She was...
Free Zaynab Jalalian – 14 years unjustly imprisoned!
Zaynab’s Story Zaynab Jalalian, an Iranian women’s rights activist, was arrested on International Women’s Day in March 2008 in Iran, in the Kurdish city of Kermanshah based on her alleged membership of the Kurdish political party, Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK). She...
IOPHR Statement regarding the continued illegal Detention of Ms. Narges Mohammadi
It has been more than ten days since the illegal detention of Ms. Narges Mohammadi, the Vice President of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre and the Chair of the Women's Committee Centre. Ms. Narges Mohammadi was arrested during the commemoration of the second anniversary of...
IOPHR’s statement regarding the failed kidnapping of Ms. Alinejad by agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran
The regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from the very first days of its establishment, has consistently attempted to eliminate its opponents inside and outside the country, by measures such as assassinations, kidnappings and executions. According to some statistics, at...
IOPHR’s Statement on the occasion of March 8th – The International Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace
IOPHR notes while the Day for Women's Rights and International Peace is rightly celebrated around the world, there are sadly more than forty million Iranian women who are still held captive by a backward looking medieval ideology of the current Iranian Regime....
IOPHR’s Statement in connection with the execution of Ms. Zahra Esmaeili and sixteen other prisoners in Iran
The IOPHR strongly condemns the execution of the innocent prisoner Ms. Zahra Esmaeili and 16 other prisoners in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, on the 17th February 2021. Zahra Esmaeili’s lawyer, Omid Moradi wrote on his Facebook page that Zahra Esmaeili suffered a cardiac arrest...
IOPHR hosts Ministerial Side Event 19th November on the “Legalisation of child marriage and the oppression of women under Iran’s ruling regime in the last four decades”
On 19th November 2020, IOPHR held a webinar on the “Legalisation of Child Marriage and the Oppression of Women Under Iran’s Ruling Regime in the Last Four Decades.” This event which was hosted by IOPHR in association with the International Religious Freedom Roundtable and...
19 NOV – Join another Ministerial Side Event!: “Legalisation of Child Marriage and the Oppression of Women under Iran’s ruling regime in the last Four Decades”
Women and children have suffered severely since the Islamic Revolution in Iran due to the growing systematic and widespread human rights violations in Iran. In recent years, Iranian women have fallen victim to the propagation of hate-filled rhetoric by a number of religious...
URGENT ACTIONS
The statement of the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) regarding the use of chemical poisons by Basij groups, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, against girls’ schools in Iran.
Reliable news outlets have reported the death of at least one young female student, as a result of poisoning caused by the Basiji groups affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against a number of girls' schools in various cities in Iran. The reports received from confirmed sources indicate that...
IOPHR statement on the Islamic Republic’s disturbing plans to take further innocent lives, through the issuance of more death sentences, including children as young as 15!
Once again, one of the promising youths of Iran has become a victim of the tyrannical blood-thirty regime ruling Iran. As the young Mohsen Shekari, who in response to the innate human desire for freedom wanted to change Iran, sadly did not get the chance to experience the twenty-third spring of his life....
The open letter of the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) to Mr. Josep Borrell, the Vice President of the European Commission and the head of the European Union’s foreign policy, on changing the state of recognition of Iran’s ruling regime from “De Jure” to “De Facto”
To: Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles (The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission) I am writing this open letter to you on behalf of the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR). The IOPHR is an active...