CODIR Bulletin April 2024 is published!
CODIR has published a bulletin. The bulletin covers the following:
CODIR joins DOIW to protest against upsurge of intimation against women’s right campaigners!
Confirmed reports from Iran indicate that the dictatorial regime there has launched a massive campaign of intimidation, arrest, and maltreatment of women’s rights activists in the country. During the past two weeks many peaceful campaigners have been arrested and transferred […]
The Mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran Extended for Another Year
On 24 November 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted the resolution S35/1, on the deteriorating situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and decided to establish an independent international fact-finding mission on the Islamic Republic […]
Threat of war, the theocratic regime and anti-imperialism
The region and the world stand today on the brink of an abyss and facing a real threat of a wide regional war, and perhaps an even wider war. NAVID SHOMALI, international secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran, explains […]
Regime Sacks Iranian Teachers’ Trade Union Representative!
The Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations (CCITTA) has condemned the unlawful sacking of Ms. Shiva Amelirad, a prominent teacher and trade union activist. The CCITTA subsequently moved to appoint Ms. Amelirad as its senior representative for liaison with […]
October 27th, 2022 
Joint statement of democratic women’s organisations in support of the struggle of Iranian women for dignity, equality, peace, justice, and for human and democratic rights
We, the undersigned organisations that campaign for women’s emancipation from every form of exploitation note that: On 6th July 2022, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, ordered stricter implementation of the law of mandatory hejab. Thus, […]
Bloodshed and Cover-up at Evin Prison!
“Tehran has become a detention centre, Evin has become a slaughterhouse!” CODIR is alarmed by the numerous reports and video clips that have emerged this evening (from 19:30 Tehran time on Saturday 15 October 2022) of a major incident unfolding […]
How three Iranian women spurred mass protests against theocratic regime
In July this year, a video began circulating online of an altercation between two women on a Tehran bus. One, in full hijab, attacks the other, a 28-year-old called Sepideh Rashno, for not wearing a hijab, mandated under Iranian law […]
To our courageous Iranian sisters, fighting for the rights of all of us
Press Release On 16 September 2022, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman from Sanandajj in western Iran, was arrested by the Tehran “morality police”. According to Iranian news sources, the morality police arrested Mahsa for wearing her hijab in an […]
FIM CISL statement on developments in Iran
A breath of freedom, this is what Mahsa, Hadis, Nika and all those women killed, beaten, arrested were looking for. Women deprived, for too long now, of their dignity. In an Iran increasingly squeezed, on the one hand, in the […]
Oil workers join the campaign for an end to theocratic rule in Iran!
Protesters in Iran welcome this major development! Reports received today (Monday 10 October) from Iran indicate that workers in the country’s oil industry, a powerful sphere of influence, have joined the nationwide protest movement calling for an end to the […]
Iran toughens crackdown as some oil workers reported to join protests
DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities on Monday, as demonstrations elsewhere in Iran spread into the country’s vital energy sector. Protests have swept Iran since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iran’s […]
Global Unions condemn the brutality of the Iranian authorities and demand the release of all imprisoned trade unionists
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) and the Global Union Federations (GUFs) condemn the continued brutality of the Iranian authorities against their own people and call for stronger international pressure against […]
Shirin Neshat joins protests against Iran’s worsening human rights situation with new digital works
Pieces in West Hollywood and London’s Piccadilly are a reaction to the death of 22-year-old student Mahsa Amini, after being detained by authorities in the country The New York-based Iranian artist Shirin Neshat has unveiled a digital art piece in […]
NEU stands in solidarity with women and girls in Iran
The NEU extends solidarity to the women, girls, students and all those protesting in Iran following the death in police custody on 16 September of Mahsa Amini who was detained by Iran’s so-called ‘morality police’ on allegations that she had […]
