Islamic Republic of Iran

• Annual Reports 24
• Country News 152
• Country Reports 25

• Abuse of psychiatry 1
• Access to procedures 2
• Anti-terrorism law 2
• Arabs 6
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 42
• Armed forces / Military 2
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 2
• Asylum-seekers 6
• Azeri 3
• Baha'i 5
• Border controls 1
• Border crossers 1
• Child labour 1
• Child soldiers 1
• Children's rights 6
• Children-at-risk 8
• Christian 2
• Civil and political rights 2
• Civil war 1
• Crimes against humanity 3
• Criminal justice 22
• Death in custody 4
• Death penalty 57
• Deportation / Forcible return 6
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 6
• Drug trafficking 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 6
• Embargo 1
• Expulsion 2
• Extrajudicial executions 3
• Forced marriage 1
• Foreign occupation 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 19
• Freedom of assembly and association 36
• Freedom of conscience 2
• Freedom of expression 47
• Freedom of information 28
• Freedom of religion 5
• Freedom of speech 18
• Gender discrimination 3
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Good governance 5
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• HIV and AIDS 3
• Human Rights Council 2
• Human rights activists 33
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 25
• Human rights monitors 4
• IDP camps 1
• Immigration Detention 7
• Impunity 4
• Independence of judiciary 3
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• Juvenile justice system 5
• Kurd 14
• Labour law 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 7
• Migrant rights 1
• Migrants 2
• Military operations 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
• Minorities 14
• Minority rights 6
• Muslim 3
• National security / Public order 1
• Opposition 14
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 3
• Persecution based on political opinion 18
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
• Police 4
• Political groups 6
• Political parties 7
• Political situation 17
• Pre-trial detention 2
• Prevention of discrimination 1
• Prison or detention conditions 19
• Prosecution vs persecution 1
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 3
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 3
• Reception 1
• Refoulement 3
• Refugee / Asylum law 2
• Refugee camps 2
• Refugee identity documents 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugees 11
• Registration 2
• Rejection at border 2
• Religious discrimination 7
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 2
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 1
• Return conditions 1
• Right to education 4
• Right to family life 1
• Right to health 2
• Right to justice 2
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to life 1
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 10
• Secondary movement 1
• Security forces 13
• Security situation 13
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Sharia law 2
• Single heads of household 1
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 2
• Social group persecution 1
• Sufi 1
• Sunni 3
• Terrorism 2
• Torture 2
• Transit 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• Women's rights 14
• Women-at-risk 4
• Zoroastrian 1

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• American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Iran Tracker
• American Kurdish Information Network
• Amnesty International - Iran
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Islamic Republic of Iran
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Iran
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Iran
• International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Iran
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Iran
• Iran Human Rights Voice
• Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Islamic Republic of Iran
• Kurdish Media
• Kurdish Women's Action Against Honour Killing
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• Persian2English
• RAHANA - Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - Iran
• ReliefWeb - Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• The Green Voice of Freedom
• The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
• UNHCR - Islamic Republic of Iran
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Iran, Islamic Republic of
• United States Department of State - Iran
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• Women's Learning Partnership - Claiming Equal Citizenship
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Iran
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Iran (Islamic Republic of)