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universities and their expansion through
holding education workshops, and
international courses.
e) Holding of human rights education
courses for judges and the police, and
also launching of a police human rights
deputy, and a human rights advisory unit
in law enforcement and judicial centres.
Comprehensive Nongovernmental
Centre for Empowerment, of Women
and the Family
This report from the Comprehensive
Nongovernmental
Centre
for
Empowerment of Women and the
Family reviews the social and economic
participation and employment and job
creation for women in Iran. Based on
its researches, our Association occluded
that although the Islamic Republic of
Iran in the past years, 2010 onwards
in particular, made full efforts towards
women’s employment, nevertheless the
subject of women’s economic and social
participation is a debatable subject
which requires further study.
This report deals with the participation
of NGOs in the eradication of the
poverty and unemployment problems,
and scientific and educational promotion
and economic and social empowerment
of women. In the end of this report
some recommendations for Iran’s
move in the direction of eradication of
poverty and also providing answers to
the recommendations given in the first
round of the UPR on the country.
Some of the recommendations are as
follows:
- Raising awareness and knowledge
of state bodies (legislative, executive
and judicial) towards the empowerment
of women
- Interaction and the use of the
experiencesofinternationalorganizations
and nongovernmental organizations of
other countries.
- Training of government workers
and also public opinion for better
understanding of women’s economic
and social participation.
Prevention Association of Social
Harms
Executive Summary:
The right to health is a human right
which has been recognised in the statute
of the World Health Organization.
According to article 12 of the
International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights: The States
Parties to the present Covenant recognize
the right of everyone to the enjoyment
of the highest attainable standard
of physical and mental health. And
paragraph 2c of the same article states:
The prevention, treatment and control
of epidemic, endemic, occupational and
other diseases.
This report reviews the negative
effects of economic sanctions on Iran
in the treatment of people infected with
HIV/AID, which have directly targeted
the health of the citizens of the country,
Because of Iran and Iranian banks being
in the list of sanctions and therefore the
inability to transfer funds through the
banking system, international drugs
manufacturers refrain from dealing with
Iranian buyers, and in view of the efforts
of nongovernmental organizations
and the cooperation of governmental
organizations for education and
prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS,
the import of drugs for this disease has
been disrupted over the last four years,
and the patients are put in danger, and