IRAN: UN Universal Periodic Review Excerpts

Gender Related Excerpts from II Conclusions and/or Recommendations:

7. Enhance efforts to further promote economic and social rights, as well as the rights of vulnerable groups, including women, children and people with disabilities.

8. Reconsider the inclusion of "apostasy," "witchcraft" and "heresy" as capital offences in an updated penal code.

32. Develop a legal framework for protecting and promoting the rights of women.

33. Adopt measures to guarantee women's equality under the law.

35. Facilitate for all children born to Iranian mothers access to a birth certificate and Iranian nationality, regardless of the nationality of the father.

40. Consider the abolition of juvenile execution.

41. Take measures to ensure that no torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment occurs.

45. Conduct a policy of zero tolerance towards the trafficking in women and girl children, child prostitution and the production of pornography involving children.

53. Enhance freedom of expression and assembly, and safeguard all groups, journalists and especially human rights defenders.

60. Step up efforts to enhance the participation of women in all spheres of socio-economic life, in keeping with the progress made in women's education.

64. Continue to make progress in education and health care, with a particular focus on women and girl children.

91.1.Ratify the Convention Against Torture and Optional Protocols.

2.Bring legislation in line with the international human rights conventions that Iran has

ratified.

7. Bring national legislation into conformity with international obligations on women's

rights, and follow the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on Violence

Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences, as well as guarantee the safety

of advocates for gender equality.