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A c t i v i t i e s
The 29th Session of the Human Rights Council
began on 15 June at Palais de Nations and ended
on 7 July.
The ODVV’s activities in this Session included:
holding panel on “Yemen,VictimofGlobal Silence”
with the participation of Khiam Institute of Lebanon
and AMMAN Network, panel the human rights
situation in Yemen (Stop the Violence), submission
of more than ten written and oral statements,
distribution of books and thematic reports.
Written and Oral Statements
The ODVV submitted and read 5 oral statements
on the following: Item 5: General Debate, Our
Right to Peace; Item 4: General Debate, Ongoing
Unprecedented Atrocities in Iraq; Item 3: General
Debate, Economic Sanctions: Systematic Violation
of Human Rights; Item 9: General Debate,
Islamophobia; Item 7: General Debate, Israel the
Biggest Violator of Children’s rights.
Also in this Session the ODVV submitted 5
written statements which are available in the
Human Rights Council website under Item 5:
Human Rights: Power v. Peace; Item 4: Human
rights situations that require the Council’s attention,
Ongoing Unpredicted Atrocities in Iraq; Human
rights situations that require the Council’s attention:
Sanctions :Systematic Violation of Human Rights;
Human rights situations that require the Council’s
attention: Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Situation;
Human rights situations that require the Council’s
attention: Yemeni People Are Deprived of Their
Human Rights.
The commemoration of the International Day
in Support of Victims of Torture was held on 28
June in the Peace Museum in Tehran with a stress
on “the right to rehabilitation of victims of torture
to return to normal life.”
Touring the Peace Museum, reading of the UN
Secretary General’s message for the day, ODVV
director SiavashRahpeik’s speech and the holding
of two scientific panels on the rehabilitation
of victims of torture were the highlights of the
event.
Mr. Rahpeik said: “this year’s slogan of
the International Rehabilitation Council for
Torture Victims (IRCT) in which our NGO
is a member, is ‘the right to rehabilitation of
torture victims’.” In the modern world, despite
numerous covenants, conventions and treaties
and monitoring and the improvements that have
been made across the world, sadly a new face
of inhuman behaviours and torture can be seen
around the world. From Guantanamo to Abu
Ghraib to the criminal behavour of groups like
ISIS, it seems the modern hypocrisy is the most
suitable name for today’s world’s conditions.
Participation in the 29th Session of the Human Rights Council
Commemoration of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture