Iranian schoolteachers have continued with their widespread and unprecedented campaign of sit-ins, strikes, demonstrations in towns and cities throughout Iran, having begun with three days of national action on Friday 10 December through to Sunday 12 December (weekends fall on […]
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Solidarity message of NEU with the Iranian teachers campaigning for their rights
Cooperative Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Associations (CCITTA) 2nd floor, No.4, 21 Azar Al. Miriam St. East of Emamzade Ghasem sq. Tajrish sq. P.O. Box 193953543 Tehran Iran By email: info@hamahangi.org 14 December 2021 Dear Comrades, We write as Joint […]
Stand in solidarity with Iranian teachers’ protest for justice
Today (Monday 13 December 2021) thousands of protesting teachers have assembled in front of the Majlis (Iranian parliament) building in downtown Tehran, and the main headquarters of education authorities in 25 provinces and 60 cities across Iran, demanding justice and […]
Demand for end of human rights abuses unites the Iranian people
On the occasion of United Nations Human Rights Day (10th December) the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to be a desperate one for anyone opposed to the regime. Jane Green reports. Human rights abuse in […]
Iran: Global education union community rallies around arrested trade unionists and demand their release
As an organisation committed to trade union and human rights, Education International is demanding the release of Esmail Abdi and other arrested trade union leaders in Iran. There is a particular and urgent concern for Abdi’s health, severely affected after […]
CODIR: End violence against women in Iran!
UN DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN In October 2021, António Guterres, the UN Secretary General, addressed the Security Council’s annual debate on women, peace, and security. Mr. Guterres spoke of the rising rates of violence and misogyny experienced […]
Iran death penalty threat for abortion unlawful: UN rights experts
16 November 2021 Human Rights – UN News A new Iranian law that raises the prospect of the death penalty for abortion has been condemned by independent human rights experts, who have declared that is in “clear contravention of international […]
Iran: Execution of juvenile offender ‘deeply alarming and shocking’
24 November 2021 Human Rights – UN News Arman Abdolali, 25, is the second juvenile offender to be executed in the country this year. OHCHR expressed serious concern that his case follows the pattern of child offenders being convicted after […]
The storm of protest by Iranian automobile workers has no end in sight!
An unprecedented wave of protest by workers at the Iran Khodro automobile company has engulfed the largest manufacturer in this sector in Iran since the dispute broke out in late-October, with industrial unrest spreading across the company’s three major sites […]
CODIR supports a prompt return to a fair and negotiated resolution of the stand-off regarding Iran’s nuclear issue
China: “Upholding and implementing the JCPOA is the only effective way to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue.” In a press conference on Friday 19 November, Zhao Lijian, official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of […]