RES/40/18 Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

GE.19-05837(E)

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Human Rights Council Fortieth session

25 February–22 March 2019

Agenda item 4

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 22 March 2019

40/18. 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 Human Rights Council resolutions 16/9 of 24 March 2011, 19/12 of 3

April 2012, 22/23 of 22 March 2013, 25/24 of 28 March 2014, 28/21 of 27 March 2015,

31/19 of 23 March 2016, 34/23 of 24 March 2017 and 37/30 of 23 March 2018, General

Assembly resolution 73/181 of 17 December 2018 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 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 and the

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

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

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 the mandate to the

Human Rights Council at its forty-third session and to the General Assembly at its seventy-

fourth 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 and to provide all

information necessary to allow the fulfilment of the mandate;

1 A/HRC/40/67.

United Nations A/HRC/RES/40/18

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

resources necessary to fulfil the mandate.

53rd meeting

22 March 2019

[Adopted by a recorded vote of 22 to 7, with 18 abstentions. The voting was as follows:

In favour:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia,

Czechia, Denmark, Fiji, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Saudi

Arabia, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Northern Ireland

Against:

Afghanistan, China, Cuba, Eritrea, India, Iraq, Pakistan

Abstaining:

Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic

of the Congo, Egypt, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Senegal,

Somalia, South Africa, Togo, Tunisia, Uruguay]