Islamic Republic of Iran

• Amnesty International 28
• Asylum Access 1
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 78
• Freedom House 45
• Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack 1
• Human Rights Watch 25
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 10
• International Federation for Human Rights 9
• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) 1
• International Trade Union Confederation 10
• Minority Rights Group International 10
• Reporters Without Borders 19
• UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) 1
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 8
• United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office 11
• United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 15
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 19
• United States Department of State 78

• 1951 Refugee Convention 1
• Abduction 8
• Access to procedures 3
• Access to water 1
• Ahmadis 2
• Ahwazi 6
• Airports 2
• Arabs 11
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 34
• Armed forces / Military 7
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 17
• Armenian 1
• Assemblies of God 1
• Assyrians 4
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-seekers 13
• Azeri 14
• Baha'i 36
• Baluchis 11
• Border controls 2
• Catholic 1
• Chaldean 1
• Child labour 8
• Child prostitution 6
• Child soldiers 4
• Children's rights 27
• Children-at-risk 17
• Christian 24
• Civil and political rights 3
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
• Conflict resolution 2
• Conflict situation 2
• Copts 1
• Corruption 14
• Criminal justice 23
• Dalit 1
• Death in custody 6
• Death penalty 46
• Demobilization / Disarmament 4
• Democracy 9
• Deportation / Forcible return 9
• Disappeared persons 24
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 36
• Domestic violence 2
• Drug trafficking 2
• Economic, social and cultural rights 13
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 2
• Elections 24
• Equality before the law 2
• Evangelical 14
• Exiles 2
• Expulsion 3
• Extrajudicial executions 23
• Extreme poverty 1
• Falun Gong 1
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 5
• Forced labour 25
• Forced marriage 7
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 49
• Freedom of assembly and association 68
• Freedom of conscience 4
• Freedom of expression 174
• Freedom of information 115
• Freedom of movement 31
• Freedom of religion 75
• Freedom of speech 27
• Gender discrimination 37
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Good governance 4
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• Group / Prima facie determination 2
• HIV and AIDS 3
• Hmong 1
• Honour killings 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 8
• Human rights activists 48
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 42
• Human rights monitors 13
• Humanitarian assistance 2
• Illegal entry 2
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
• Immigration Detention 10
• Impunity 15
• Independence of judiciary 10
• Indigenous persons 4
• Integration 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 4
• International courts and tribunals 1
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 7
• International protection 3
• Involuntary repatriation 3
• Jew 23
• Juvenile justice system 9
• Karen 1
• Kurd 25
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 3
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 21
• Livelihoods 1
• Mennonite 1
• Mental health 1
• Migrants 7
• Military operations 1
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
• Minorities 45
• Minority rights 12
• Montagnards 1
• Multiple nationality 1
• Muslim 22
• Naturalization 1
• Older persons 2
• Opposition 10
• Palestinian 2
• Peacekeeping 3
• Pentecostal 1
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 19
• Persecution of family members 3
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 7
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
• Persons with disabilities 10
• Police 12
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 2
• Political situation 9
• Pre-trial detention 8
• Prison or detention conditions 21
• Prisoners of war 1
• Property restitution 4
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 2
• Protestant 11
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 7
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 6
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 2
• Reconciliation 1
• Refoulement 3
• Refugee camps 5
• Refugee identity documents 6
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 5
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 5
• Refugees 26
• Registration 3
• Rejected asylum-seekers 1
• Rejection at border 2
• Religious discrimination 50
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 34
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 2
• Reservation 1
• Resettlement 2
• Residence permits / Residency 3
• Right to education 13
• Right to employment 14
• Right to health 2
• Right to justice 2
• Right to registration at birth 1
• Right to self-determination 4
• Roma 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 25
• SGBV 24
• Sabean Mandean 11
• Sale of children 2
• Sanctions 4
• Security forces 14
• Security situation 7
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Shia 20
• Small arms 1
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 14
• Social group persecution 1
• Statelessness 3
• Sufi 20
• Sunni 22
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
• Temporary admission 1
• Temporary protection 2
• Terrorism 31
• Threats / Intimidation 9
• Torture 24
• Trafficking in persons 37
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Travel documents 1
• Turkmen 3
• Urban refugees 2
• Voluntary repatriation 3
• Women's rights 48
• Women-at-risk 14
• Work permits 9
• Zoroastrian 26

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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)