RES/28/21 Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

GE.A/HRC/28/70. 5-07259 (E)

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Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth session

Agenda item 4

Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council

28/21. Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

The Human Rights Council,

Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human

Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant international

human rights instruments,

Recalling its resolutions 16/9 of 24 March 2011, 19/12 of 3 April 2012, 22/23 of 22

March 2013 and 25/24 of 28 March 2014, General Assembly resolution 69/190 of 18

December 2014 and all previous resolutions of the Assembly on the situation of human

rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and regretting the lack of cooperation of the Islamic

Republic of Iran with the requests of the Human Rights Council and the Assembly made in

those resolutions,

Welcoming the report and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the

situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran submitted to the Human Rights

Council,1 and expressing serious concern at the developments noted in that report as well as

the lack of access permitted to the Special Rapporteur to travel to the Islamic Republic of

Iran,

Recalling its resolutions 5/1, on the institution-building of the Human Rights

Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the

Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that mandate holders are to discharge their duties in

accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,

1. Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of

human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran for a further period of one year, and requests

the Special Rapporteur to submit a report on the implementation of his mandate to the

Human Rights Council at its thirty-first session and to the General Assembly at its

seventieth session;

2. Calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate fully

with the Special Rapporteur and to permit access to visit the country as well as all

information necessary to allow the fulfilment of the mandate;

3. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with the

resources necessary to fulfil the mandate.

57th meeting

27 March 2015

[Adopted by a recorded vote of 20 to 11, with 16 abstentions. The voting was as follows:

In favour:

Albania, Argentina, Botswana, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Gabon,

Germany, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands,

Paraguay, Portugal, Republic of Korea, the former Yugoslav Republic of

Macedonia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United

States of America

Against:

Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), China, Cuba, India, Indonesia,

Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic

of), Viet Nam

Abstaining:

Algeria, Brazil, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Maldives,

Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa,

United Arab Emirates]