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Iran Human Rights (IHR) (Persian: سازمان حقوق بشر ایران) is a non-profit international non-governmental organization focused on human rights in Iran. Founded in 2005, it is a non-partisan and politically independent organisation based in Oslo , Norway .
Amiry-Moghaddam is well known as a defender of human rights. He received the Norwegian Amnesty International's human rights prize in 2007 [5] for his work against the human rights violations in Iran. Today, he works as a Professor in Medicine and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Oslo.
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (Norwegian: Norsk senter for menneskerettigheter; abbreviated SMR in Norwegian and NCHR in English) is a multidisciplinary research centre at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law. From 2001 to 2015 it was also the ICC accredited Norwegian national human rights institution. [1]
The Imperial State of Iran, the government of Iran during the Pahlavi dynasty, lasted from 1925 to 1979.The use of torture and abuse of prisoners varied at times during the Pahlavi reign, according to one history, [6] but both of two monarchs – Reza Shah Pahlavi and his son Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi – employed censorship, secret police, torture, and executions.
[76] [77] [note 5] Death certificates obtained by Human Rights Activists in Iran, HRANA, confirm that many died from live bullets. The Norway-based group, Iran Human Rights, stated that with the current Internet blackouts, it was difficult to get accurate and up-to-date figures. [25]
Mazyar Keshvari was a deputy member of parliament for the Progress Party and also sat on the Oslo City Council; he is an outspoken activist for human rights in Iran. [4] Masud Gharahkhani is a key politician for the Labour Party, and was candidate for becoming the first non-Western mayor of a Norwegian town in 2011 but lost in the election. [5]
A top United Nations human rights official attacked the Biden administration’s supposed lack of a broad strategy for dealing with Iran and its various actions across the Middle East during a ...
In March 2011, the UN Human Rights Council re-established this mandate, which the UNCHR had terminated in 2002, under the title Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. [12] Ahmed Shaheed was the Special Rapporteur from 2011 to 2016. [13]