Islamic Republic of Iran

Country Information 388

Abuse of psychiatry 1
Access to procedures 1
Access to water 2
Administrative law 1
Ahwazi 1
Alawi 1
Anti-terrorism law 1
Appeal / Right to appeal 2
Arabs 11
Arbitrary arrest and detention 28
Armed forces / Military 10
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 9
Armenian 2
Assemblies of God 1
Assyrians 2
Asylum policy 3
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 16
Azeri 11
Baha'i 12
Bakhtiari 2
Baluchis 11
Baptist 1
Border conflict 1
Border controls 1
Border crossers 2
Chaldean 1
Child labour 4
Child soldiers 1
Children's rights 11
Children-at-risk 14
Christian 17
Citizenship / Nationality law 1
Civil and political rights 7
Civil war 1
Civilian character of asylum 1
Combatants / Former combatants 1
Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
Conflict prevention 1
Conflict situation 1
Contemporary forms of slavery 2
Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
Corruption 5
Country of origin information (COI) 1
Crimes against humanity 1
Criminal justice 20
Death penalty 40
Demobilization / Disarmament 3
Democracy 2
Deportation / Forcible return 10
Disappeared persons 1
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 11
Domestic violence 12
Drug trafficking 4
Economic, social and cultural rights 15
Effective protection 3
Effective remedy 1
Elections 22
Embargo 1
Entry / Exit 4
Entry into force 1
Equality before the law 1
Ethnic cleansing 1
Evangelical 3
Exiles 4
Extrajudicial executions 10
False documents 4
Family law 2
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 8
Forced marriage 7
Foreign occupation 1
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 34
Freedom of assembly and association 24
Freedom of expression 43
Freedom of information 22
Freedom of movement 8
Freedom of religion 21
Freedom of speech 17
Gender discrimination 19
Gender mainstreaming 1
Gender-based persecution 10
Good governance 16
HIV and AIDS 5
Harmful traditional practices 6
Hazara 1
Hmong 1
Honour killings 11
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 3
Human Rights Council 12
Human rights activists 24
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 58
Human rights law 1
Human rights monitors 3
IDP camps 3
Immigrants 2
Immigration Detention 4
Impunity 7
Independence of judiciary 14
Integration 2
Internal armed conflict 3
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 9
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 9
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 1
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 1
International armed conflict 8
International courts and tribunals 1
International criminal law 1
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 4
Jew 6
Juvenile justice system 5
Kurd 24
Labour law 1
Laws relating to religion 2
Legal representation / Legal aid 4
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 18
Livelihoods 1
Maternal and child health care 3
Mental health 1
Migrant rights 3
Migrants 5
Military courts 2
Military law 1
Military operations 6
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
Minorities 22
Minority rights 18
Muslim 6
Non-refoulement 2
Non-state agents of persecution 1
Older persons 1
Opposition 19
Passports 1
Peace agreements 2
Peace process 3
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 2
Persecution based on political opinion 15
Persecution of family members 1
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 9
Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
Persons with disabilities 6
Police 2
Political groups 19
Political parties 24
Political situation 66
Prevention of discrimination 2
Prison or detention conditions 24
Prisoners of war 2
Property restitution 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
Protection of camps 1
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 3
Protestant 2
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2
Public health 4
Racial / Ethnic persecution 8
Refoulement 5
Refugee / Asylum law 7
Refugee camps 4
Refugee identity documents 2
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
Refugees 33
Registration 2
Reintegration 1
Rejected asylum-seekers 5
Rejection at border 1
Religious discrimination 21
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 11
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
Resettlement 2
Return conditions 9
Returnees 13
Right to a nationality 2
Right to education 12
Right to employment 5
Right to family life 1
Right to health 1
Right to justice 2
Right to liberty and security 4
Right to life 3
Right to seek asylum 4
Right to self-determination 1
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 20
SGBV 21
Sabean Mandean 4
Sale of children 1
Sanctions 63
Security forces 13
Security situation 53
Sexual and reproductive rights 3
Sharia law 2
Shia 10
Single heads of household 1
Smuggling of persons 2
Social group discrimination 7
Social group persecution 5
Somalis 1
Spontaneous return 1
State protection 5
Statelessness 1
Sufi 8
Sunni 12
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
Terrorism 18
Torture 2
Trafficking in persons 12
Transgression of social / cultural norms 2
Turkmen 2
Turks 3
Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 6
Urban refugees 1
Voluntary repatriation 10
Well-founded fear of persecution 1
Women's rights 36
Women-at-risk 14
Zoroastrian 16

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Country Information and Guidance - Iran: Sexual orientation and gender identity 27 September 2016 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Home Office \| Document type: Country Reports
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran 6 September 2016 \| Publisher: UN General Assembly \| Document type: Country Reports
Iran's Foreign Policy 24 August 2016 \| Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service \| Document type: Country Reports
Iran: Politics, Gulf Security, and U.S. Policy 19 August 2016 \| Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service \| Document type: Country Reports
Health Taken Hostage: Cruel Denial of Medical Care in Iran's Prisons 18 July 2016 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2231 (2015) 12 July 2016 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Country Information and Guidance - Iran: Background Information, including actors of protection and internal relocation July 2016 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Home Office \| Document type: Country Reports
Country Information and Guidance - Iran: Illegal Exit July 2016 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Home Office \| Document type: Country Reports
Country Information and Guidance - Iran: Kurds and Kurdish political groups July 2016 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Home Office \| Document type: Country Reports
Iran : Les femmes et l'adultère 17 June 2016 \| Publisher: France: Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (OFPRA) \| Document type: Country Reports

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