Can Ahwazi workers survive Iranian regime's repression through international laws? All international charters and conventions on human rights have guaranteed the right to demonstrate since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) issued by the United Nations in 1948, which are essential source of legislation. According to Article 20 of UDHR, everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association". Article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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AHWAZ from August 2018 to the present time The Iranian authorities have severely suppressed the rights of freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, as well as freedom of religion and belief, and imprisoned dozens of people who have expressed their opposition to the policy of the Iranian regime. Iranian trials against Ahwazi were systematically unfair. Torture and other ill-treatment were widespread and committed with impunity. Discrimination, persecution and violence based on g
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The Situation of Human Rights in Ahwaz Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Civil and Political Rights 3. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 4. Violations against Women and Girls 5. Land Confiscation and Forced Displacement 6. Environmental Pollution 1. Introduction The Ahwazi territory is located in the eastern coast of Arabian Gulf, starting from the eastern bank of Shatt Al-Arab in the north to Jaghin R
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The extra-judicial arrest of Ahwazi activists by the Iranian security forces constitute a serious and systematic crime of harassing, intimidating and spreading fear among Ahwazi people. This practice cannon be justified under any circumstances, including the state of emergency. This is because the right to freedom and security of individuals is one of the most fundamental rights guaranteed under the international human rights law. The state of Iran is not unique, nor excepted from respecting
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Considering the deadly armed attack against the Iranian military parade in Ahwaz on 22 September 2018, one may raise a question about the cause of such attack upon the Iranian regime's power in Ahwaz region. [1] There is a maxim saying that one cannon rule people without observing neither justice nor equality among all peoples. Thus, discrimination and inequality can only fuel tension and frustration among the deprived people. The ruling power in Ahwaz is alien and extra-territorial, lacking su
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On 21st September 2018, the Ahwazi Organization for the Defence of Human Rights held an event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in collaboration with the Arab Organization for Human Rights. The talks focused on the situation of human rights in Ahwaz, covering different aspects of the violations perpetrated against Ahwazi children, women and men. The meeting shed light on the deterioration on the environmental arena caused by discriminatory policies of the Iranian state in the region of
More Details The Situation of Human Rights in Ahwaz Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Civil and Political Rights 3. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 4. Violations ag
Rights activists and watchdogs are appealing to the universal conscience to intervene to set the 15-year old detainee Maeda al-Amuri, free. She was arrested by the Iranian authorities and led to unkn
Activists on social media sites circulated a video over the past few days featuring horrendous torture committed by Iranian regime forces against the Ahwazi political prisoners. The gruesome crime c
