US-Iran deal must centre human rights and region must see real and sustainable end to hostilities
USA/Iran: Trump’s warning that USA will attack Iran’s power plants is a threat to commit war crimes
USA/Iran: Those responsible for deadly and unlawful US strike on school that killed over 100 children must be held accountable
Escalation of crackdowns on Iranian women campaigners: Theocratic regime sentences one women’s activist to death and another four to imprisonment HRANA News Agency – A review of judicial verdicts issued over the past week indicates that between 26 June and 3 July, […]
18 June 2026 Responding to the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the USA and Iran to end a months-long war that spilled into neighbouring countries, killing more than 6,000 people across the Middle East and rattling the global […]
The UCU Congress 2026 was successfully held between 27 and 29 May in the beautiful surrounds of Harrogate, North Yorkshire. As in previous years, CODIR was invited to organise exhibition stand of its material and engage with interested participants at Congress. Once […]
THE United States and Iran have digitally signed and released a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at ending the illegal and unprovoked war launched by President Donald Trump and Israel in February. The memorandum was signed by Mr Trump and his […]
The ceasefire may have halted the fighting for now, but years of economic warfare and recent military attacks have left millions of Iranians facing hardship and uncertainty, says Codir’s RUBEN BRETT UNDAY’S announcement of a new 60-day ceasefire agreement, digitally […]
Lina Khatib The country is on the defensive. While Israel has ironclad support from its allies, Tehran is vulnerable and isolatedMon 22 Apr 2024 11.13 BSTShare Tit-for-tat confrontation between Israel and Iran has sparked concerns about escalation dragging the Middle East into […]
Kurdish, Baluch, Azeri, and Other Ethnic Communities Apparently Targeted (Beirut) – Iran’s security forces raped, tortured, and sexually assaulted detainees while repressing widespread protests in 2022 and 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. The grave abuses are part of a broader pattern […]
CODIR has published a bulletin. The bulletin covers the following:
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Wednesday morning, 27 March 2024, eleven women’s rights activists were sentenced to a total of over 60 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court of Rasht, the capital of Gilan province in North Iran. The activists are: Ms. Farough […]
Data from the Statistical Centre of Iran shows that the unemployment rate for young people aged 16 to 24 is higher than the unemployment rate for the country as a whole. One of the reasons for this is the limited […]
by Marjane Satrapi, Joann Sfar, et al., translated by Una Dimitrijevic An urgent, groundbreaking and visually stunning new collection of graphic story-telling about the present Iranian revolution from Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis. A collaboration of activists, artists, journalists, and academics working together to depict […]
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