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The second round of the UPR on Iran took place in the 20th Session of the Human
Rights Council on Friday 31October 2014. In total 291 recommendations have been given
to Iran. Below we shall take a statistical look to the subjects to which recommendations
have been given.
The recommendations cover numerous areas.And each recommendation might include
one or several points. But in a glancing look the dispersal level of the reference of those
giving the recommendations has been as seen further on in this article. The aim of these
statistics is to present a picture of the type and weight of each human rights demands
of countries within these recommendations. In other words, one recommendation can
include one or more cases from below. Furthermore it must be said that this classification
has taken place by placing small cases in a general collective paragraph, and it is pissible
to have different statistical analysis on the basis of other categorizations too.
a) Protection of women’s rights, elimination of inequalities, and improvement of
women’s conditions and creation of equal job opportunities and also recommendation of
the right for an Iranian woman national to have her child be an Iranian national too, in the
event of her marrying a foreign national: 52 instances.
b) Opposition to any form of capital punishment: 39 instances; the abolishment of the
death penalty in general form: 24 instances; abolishment of the death penalty in specific
terms for individuals under 18 or under 18 year old criminals: 12 instances; suspension
of punishment by stoning: 3 instances.
c) Economic, welfare and employment development: 26 instances
1. Rural development: 5 instances
A statistical look at
Second Round of the UPR on Iran
The aim of these
statistics is to present
a picture of the
type and weight
of each human
rights demands of
countries within these
recommendations.
In other words, one
recommendation can
include one or more
cases from below