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- EIN 27-5305580
- (917) 669-5996
- 137 Montague Street Suite 384 Brooklyn NY 11201-3548 USA
- http://www.iranhumanrights.org/
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: International
Mission: To promote international human rights standards to ensure a culture of respect for human dignity and rights of all and to hold iranian state actors accountable to their international obligations. The organizations approach is non-partisan and non-political; it operates within the framework of human rights law, including the international covenant on civil and political rights (iccpr) and the international covenant on economic, social, and cultural rights (icesr), as well as other covenants iran has ratified, customary international law, and humanitarian law.
Programs: Research and documentationthe organizations team of researchers conducted extensive research on the situation of human rights in iran. The organization used this information to provide up-to-date, verified documentation of rights violations in the form of comprehensive reports, briefing papers, fact sheets, news articles, press releases, and multimedia productions including videos, audio podcasts, and interactive online projects. Much of the organizations work was disseminated in both english and persian. The organization has become one of the leading sources of information on the condition of human rights in iran.
social and cultural outreach & capacity buildingthe organizations work included social and cultural projects that aim to reach, inform, and sensitize a broader audience to human rights issues. The organization worked with a broad spectrum of prominent personalities from a range of disciplines, including the arts, culture, and music to highlight major human rights issues and generate support and solidarity amongst a wide audience. Through these projects the organization reached new audiences and promoted human rights discourse more broadly. The organiztion posted weekly editorial cartoons on human rights themes by a renowned artists on its website and produced and posted audio podcasts featuring filmmakers, musicians, satarists, lawyers, doctors, and academics.
institutional advocacythe organization engaged in international advocacy through such forums as the united nations general assembly and human rights council. The organization provides policy recommendations to foreign policy experts and civil society organizations wordlwide encouraging them to focus on the human rights situation in iran.