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documentation of human rights violation
cases are brought to attention for all
countries, even powerful ones.
There is no doubt that the lack of
functionality and or the weakness of
international organizations, particularly
in the area of protection of human rights,
in the attention of countries that failing
to provide answers, weaken the said
organizations, and miss the opportunities
to grow and develop and they have tried
to the maximum to prefer their own
national interests against international
communities’ interests, by ignoring the
international characteristics of these
bodies.
In this regard it seems that the
establishment of the Human Rights
Council and mechanisms such as the
UPR is a big step for confrontation
with violation of human righs through
making countries accountable, but it is
not a definite solution.
In other words the thought that with
the establishment of the Human Rights
Council, human rights catastrophes will
be stopped and countries are fully held
to count, is not a complete thought. Of
course a point that must not be forgotten
such an improvement must not be deemed
as less important, but by itself it will not
result in the accountability of countries.
A thematic study has been conducted
on Israel and the United Kingdom, and
clearly the complexity of issues relating
to communications, cooperation and
accountability with regards to the UPR
mechanism is clearly visible.
In viewof the conclusions of conducted
researches, it seems to me that for the
purpose of the promotion of human
rights and increased accountability
of countries towards human rights
mechanisms, more than standardization
and principle making, the international
community needs to guarantee the
implementation and making countries
to be accountable towards observation
of human rights principles. The serious
and continued activity of the Council
towards reaching its objectives requires
necesary condition and commitment
of all countries towards human rights
commitments and cooperation with the
Council is necessary condition for the
success of the Council and ultimately the
international community, and this is how
human rights principles will become
more successful in the application
process.
The author believes, the establishment
of human rights protection mechanisms
must overall be deemed as a positive
step and hope that what is known as the
Universal Periodic Review, be towards
the accountability of countries to
international organizations.
Therefore based on the findings of this
research,theauthorreachestheconclusion
that the existence of mechanisms such as
the Universal Periodic Review within
the Human Rights Council will increase
the accountability of countries towards
human rights violation cases to the
Human Rights Council.
In its national
report, the Islamic
Republic of Iran had
tried to determine
its country human
rights improvements
between February
2010 and October
2014, and to clarify
some existing
ambiguities in
understanding of
human rights policies
and also relevant
religious laws.