{"id":38804,"date":"2015-11-13T18:26:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T16:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peshmergekan.com\/2015\/11\/13\/%da%95%d8%a7%da%af%d9%87%e2%80%8c%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%88%db%8e%d9%83%db%8c-%d9%87%d8%a7%d9%88%d8%a8%d9%87%e2%80%8c%d8%b4-%d8%a8%db%86-%d9%be%d8%b4%d8%aa%db%8c%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86\/"},"modified":"2015-11-13T18:26:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T16:26:42","slug":"%da%95%d8%a7%da%af%d9%87%e2%80%8c%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%88%db%8e%d9%83%db%8c-%d9%87%d8%a7%d9%88%d8%a8%d9%87%e2%80%8c%d8%b4-%d8%a8%db%86-%d9%be%d8%b4%d8%aa%db%8c%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peshmergekan.com\/?p=38804","title":{"rendered":"\u0695\u0627\u06af\u0647\u200c\u06cc\u0627\u0646\u062f\u0631\u0627\u0648\u06ce\u0643\u06cc \u0647\u0627\u0648\u0628\u0647\u200c\u0634 \u0628\u06c6 \u067e\u0634\u062a\u06cc\u0648\u0627\u0646\u06cc \u0644\u0647\u200c \u0628\u0695\u06cc\u0627\u0631\u0646\u0627\u0645\u0647\u200c\u06cc \u0643\u06c6\u0695\u06cc \u06af\u0634\u062a\u06cc \u0646\u0647\u200c\u062a\u0647\u200c\u0648\u0647\u200c\u06cc\u0647\u200c\u0643\u06af\u0631\u062a\u0648\u0648\u0647\u200c\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0644\u0647\u200c \u0633\u0647\u200c\u0631 \u067e\u0631\u0633\u06cc \u0645\u0627\u0641\u0647\u200c\u0643\u0627\u0646\u06cc \u0645\u0631\u06c6\u06a4 \u0644\u0647\u200c \u0626\u06ce\u0631\u0627\u0646"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; 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font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">To: Member States of the UN General Assembly<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">12 November 2015<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">Your Excellency:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">We, the undersigned human rights and civil society organizations, urge your government to vote in favor of Resolution <span style=\"background: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;\">A\/C.30\/70\/L.45 <span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">on the promotion and protection of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This vote will take place during the 70<sup>th<\/sup> session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), scheduled for the Third Committee on Thursday, 19 November 2015. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">The recent nuclear accord between Iran and the P5+1 provides the international community with an opportunity to focus attention on the chronically dire human rights situation in Iran. Support for the UNGA resolution will help prioritize human rights and reaffirm the international community\u2019s core recommendations for how Iranian authorities can best meet their international rights obligations. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">In September and October, the UN Secretary-General and the UN Special Rapporteur on&nbsp;the situation of human rights in<span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\"> <span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">the Islamic Republic of <span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">Iran, each reported on a range of practices in the country that seriously undermine the rights to life, freedom from torture, freedoms of expression, association, peaceful assembly, and religion and belief, the right to a fair trial as well as the rights to education and health. The Special Rapporteur also cited discrimination based on gender, religion, and ethnicity. <span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">Notwithstanding Iran&#8217;s 2002 standing invitation to the United Nations\u2019 Special Procedures, and despite their numerous and repeated requests to visit the country, none of these special procedures, including the country rapporteur, have been allowed to visit for the past 10 years.<i><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\"> <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">Furthermore, the authorities have systematically worked to undermine the efforts of Iranian civil society to promote and protect international human rights standards. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">Despite these many human rights concerns, Iranian authorities have rejected in full or in part the majority of the recommendations made during the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), and undertook notably fewer voluntary commitments than they had in the first cycle. Indeed, they rejected nearly all recommendations regarding civil and political rights in full or in part. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">The continued attention of the international community is required if Iran is to end this pattern of abuse and noncooperation. UN Member States should express their concern about these violations. In doing so, States show support for civil society as well as for those in positions of authority who wish to see improvements in the human rights situation. By voting in favor of the resolution, states will encourage Iran\u2019s government to prioritize human rights and to advance and protect the rights of Iran\u2019s population.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">The country has had a disturbing escalation in the use of the death penalty, with at least 830 people executed between 1 January and 1 November 2015. There were reports of executions of at least four juvenile offenders. Iranian authorities executed&nbsp;Fatemeh Salbehi on&nbsp;13 October for a crime she allegedly&nbsp;committed&nbsp;at age 17.&nbsp;She was convicted of killing her husband, whom she had&nbsp;reportedly been forced to marry when she was just 16. Several UN Special Rapporteurs subsequently denounced this execution of a juvenile offender and lack of&nbsp;judicial&nbsp;leniency given that Salbehi experienced&nbsp;domestic&nbsp;abuse, including forced early marriage.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">The vast majority of executions in Iran are for crimes such as drug-related offenses where international law clearly prohibits the death penalty, as the offenses are not \u2018the most serious crimes\u2019. Iranian law maintains the death penalty for financial crimes and for acts that should not be considered criminal at all including \u201cinsulting the Prophet of Islam,\u201d and consensual sexual relations between adults, including for adultery and certain same-sex relations. Some individuals may also have been executed for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association, and assembly. Others, including a spiritual teacher, Mohammad Ali Taheri, remain on death row for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of belief. Executions based on national-security-related charges that may be politically motivated appear to be carried out disproportionately against members of Iran\u2019s ethnic minority communities, including Ahwazi Arabs, Azerbaijani Turks, Kurds, and Baluchis, who experience widespread discrimination in law and practice, including in the enjoyment of their economic, social and cultural rights. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Trials in Iran often fall far short of international law and standards. Sentences, including the death penalty, are often imposed without any regard to internationally prescribed safeguards, such as access to a lawyer of one\u2019s choice from the time of arrest<span style=\"background: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;\">.<span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;\"> The use of \u201cconfessions\u201d coerced under torture or other ill-treatment is routinely reported, and courts generally rely on evidence obtained in breach of international law and standards. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">UN bodies and human rights organizations have expressed grave concerns for&nbsp;hundreds of activists, journalists, human rights defenders, women\u2019s rights advocates, trade unionists, lawyers, students, artists, and members of ethnic and religious minorities languishing in arbitrary detention. Iranian detainees and prisoners persistently face the risk of torture or other ill-treatment, including prolonged solitary confinement and denial of medical treatment. They are regularly <span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">denied access to legal counsel, in <span style=\"color: black;\">breach of their right to a fair trial. Many detainees are prosecuted under vaguely defined national security charges, which are routinely used to silence peaceful expression, association, assembly, and religious activity. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">At the start of November, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard arrested at least five journalists, including Isa Saharkhiz, Ehsan Mazandarani, Afarin Chitsaz, and Saman Safarzaee. According to Isa Saharkhiz\u2019 son, he is facing national-security-related charges. In<span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"> an alarming set of cases, courts have imposed lengthy prison terms of 12 to 16 years on several young activists. For example, on 30 May, an artist and civil society activist, Atena Farghadani, was sentenced to over 12 years in prison for her association with families of the post-2009 presidential election protesters who died in detention, allegedly under torture, and for her artwork. The artwork included drawing and posting on Facebook a satirical cartoon that mocked Iranian lawmakers for their efforts to pass a bill that outlaws voluntary sterilization and restricts access to information about contraception. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">Systematic discrimination and violence against women in law and practice also merits serious concern. For instance, married women do not have equal rights with their husbands, including with respect to divorce, child custody and inheritance, and must legally have their husbands\u2019 permission to attend university, hold a job, or travel out of the country. In the past few years, the authorities have increased the discriminatory measures restricting women\u2019s access to higher education, including imposing gender quotas. Women\u2019s participation in society is also restricted through compulsory \u201cveiling\u201d laws that target women who fail to cover their head and conform to strict dress codes for harassment and imprisonment. Since 2012, state funding for Iran\u2019s family planning program has been withdrawn, restricting access to affordable modern contraception for millions of women in the country. Two draft laws, the Bill to Increase Fertility Rates and Prevent Population Decline and the Comprehensive Population and Exaltation of Family Bill, would, if enacted, further erode women\u2019s right to sexual and reproductive health, and entrench gender-based discrimination and violence, including domestic violence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">This resolution on the promotion and protection of human rights in Iran of the 70<sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\"> UNGA is a vital opportunity for the international community to express human rights concerns. The resolution welcomes recent positive commitments by Iranian officials, while effectively drawing attention to the broad range of ongoing violations. Moreover, the resolution calls on authorities to cooperate with all UN Special Procedures, including the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">Substantive cooperation with UN mechanisms and tangible rights improvements in line with Iran\u2019s international legal obligations are the real measures of progress. By voting in favor of this resolution on Thursday, 19 November 2015, the UNGA will send a strong signal to the government and everyone in Iran that the world is invested in genuine human rights improvements in the country.<\/p>\n<p> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Roya Boroumand, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Robin Phillips, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">The Advocates for Human Rights<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Hassan Nayeb Hashem, Representative to the Human Rights Council in Geneva<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">All Human Rights for All in Iran<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Middle East North Africa Programme<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Amnesty International <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Kamran Ashtary, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Arseh Sevom<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Thomas Hughes, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">ARTICLE 19 <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Shahin Helali Khyavi<span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">, Director<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Association for Human Rights of the Azerbaijani People in Iran<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Taimoor Aliassi, UN Representative<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Association pour les Droits Humains au Kurdistan d&#8217;Iran-Gen\u00e8ve (KMMK-G)<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Mansoor Bibak, Co-Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Balochistan Human Rights Group<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Founder and President&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Center for Supporters of Human Rights<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Steering Committee<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Committee of Human Rights Reporters<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\" face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Joel Simon, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Committee to Protect Journalists <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Jessica Morris, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Conectas Direitos Humanos<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Hassan Shire, Executive Director&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">East&nbsp;and&nbsp;Horn&nbsp;of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;\">Rapha\u00ebl<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"> <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Chenuil-Hazan<span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">, Executive Director<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Ensemble Contre La Peine de Mort (ECPM)<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Ibrahim Al Arabi, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">European Ahwazi Human Rights Organisation<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Susan Munroe, Chief Executive<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Freedom From Torture<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Keyvan Rafiee,&nbsp;Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Human Rights Activists in Iran<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Sarah Leah Whitson, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Human Rights Watch<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Carolina Carrera, President<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Humanas: Centro Regional&nbsp;de Derechos&nbsp;Humanos&nbsp;y Justicia de G\u00e9nero<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Mani Mostofi, Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Impact Iran<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Mohammad Nayyeri, Director <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Insight Iran<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Hadi Ghaemi, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">St\u00e9phanie David, Representative to the United Nations in New York<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Phil Lynch, Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">International Service for Human Rights<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Saghi Ghahraman, President<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO)<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Iran Human Rights<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Shadi Sadr, Co-Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Justice for Iran<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Rebin Rahmani, Director of European Branch<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">The Kurdistan Human Rights Network<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Jessica Stern, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">OutRight Action International<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Mehrangiz Kar, Chairperson<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Siamak Pourzand Foundation<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Mahmood Enayat, Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Small Media<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Firuzeh Mahmoudi, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">United for Iran<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; 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