Human Rights and Liberties

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• Society: Issues: Human Rights and Liberties  (709)

Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to Iranian Refugees - - Organization of Iranian refugees and asylum seekers. Newsletter, fact sheets and contact information.

Entezam.org - - Site dedicated to Mr. Abbas Amir Entezam, longest held political prisoner in Iran. Includes biography and photos.

Human Rights in Iran - - An interview from 1998 with Shirin Ebadi, the first female judge in Iran before the revolution.

Human Rights Watch - Iran Documents - - Links to World Report entries for Iran and bibliography of human rights articles and books.

I Advocate Reforms - - Interview with Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

International Federation of Iranian Refugees - - Organizes protests supporting Iranian refugees and publishes Hambastegi (Solidarity), a bimonthly publication promoting this mission.

Iranian Refugees Alliance - - Promotes the human rights of Iranian refugees and asylum seekers internationally. Contains many documents issued by various international and national bodies on human rights in Iran.

Mission for the Establishment of Human Rights in Iran (Mehr Iran) - - Promotes awareness of the human rights situation in Iran through articles, urgent actions and petitions.

Organization for Defending Victims of Violence - - Tehran-based NGO promoting non-violence and human rights. Weekly news releases, monthly newsletter and feature articles.

Stoning to Death in Iran - - Information about the practice of stoning in Iran, including excerps from the Islamic regime's penal code and a case study of the stoning of Iranian women. Also features a video of four individuals being stoned in the presence of high ranking officials of Iran's judiciary. Warning: this video is graphic and very disturbing.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Iran - - Links to United Nations resolutions relating to Iran, reports of the Special Representative on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, press releases, statements and other documents.

Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights - - Based on the Qur'an and the Sunnah and compiled by eminent Muslim scholars, jurists and representatives of Islamic movements and thought.

U.S. Department of State: Iran Human Rights Report for 1996 - - Report on human rights practices in Iran in 1996.

U.S. Department of State: Iran Human Rights Report for 1997 - - Report on human rights practices in Iran in 1997.

U.S. Department of State: Iran Human Rights Report for 1998 - - Report on human rights practices in Iran in 1998.

U.S. Department of State: Iran Human Rights Report for 1999 - - Report on human rights practices in Iran in 1999.

U.S. Department of State: Iran Human Rights Report for 2000 - - - Report on human rights practices in Iran in 2000.

U.S. Department of State: Iran Human Rights Report for 2001 - - - Report on human rights practices in Iran in 2001.

Trial of Iranian Jews Should be Postponed - - Human Rights Watch today urged officials presiding over the trial of thirteen Iranian Jews to make public the official charges against the defendants. (April 13, 2000)