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Following the resignation of Galindo Pohl, the UNCHR appointed Maurice Copithorne, [8] a Canadian lawyer, [9] as the Special Rapporteur. On 22 April 2002, the UNCHR voted not to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur, a decision condemned by Human Rights Watch (HRW) [10] and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
The UNHCR's Mid-Year Trends report of June 2015 (based on information for mid-2015 or latest available information up to that date) reported an "unprecedented" 57,959,702 individuals falling under its mandate (for reference, on 1 January 2007, 21,018,589 people – or less than half of the number in 2015 – fell under the mandate of the UNHCR).
Afghan children at Naqsh-e Jahan Square in Esfahan, Iran. (2007) As of October 2020, there are 780,000 registered Afghan refugees and asylum seekers temporarily residing in Iran under the care and protection of the UNHCR. [26] [32] [47] [48] The majority of them were born in Iran during the last four decades but are still considered citizens of ...
Many were born in Iran over the last 30 years but were unable to gain citizenship due to Iranian immigration laws. The refugees include Hazaras, Tajiks, Qizilbash, Pashtuns, and other ethnic groups of Afghanistan. [35] One UNHCR paper claims that nearly half the documented refugees are Hazara, a primarily Shi'a group. [36]
When Iranian queer people flee persecution in Iran, they often go to Turkey. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees interviews these refugees and determines if their asylum claim is valid. If they are granted asylum status, the UNHCR finds a new country for each individual based on their profile.
The ICCPR states the basic rules for the membership of the Human Rights Committee. Article 28 of the ICCPR states that the Committee is composed of 18 members from states parties to the ICCPR, "who shall be persons of high moral character and recognized competence in the field of human rights", with consideration "to the usefulness of the participation of some persons having legal experience."
The Islamic Republic of Iran has a comprehensive and effective program of family planning. While Iran's population grew at a rate of more than 3% per year between 1956 and 1986, the growth rate began to decline in the late 1980s and early 1990s after the government initiated a major population control program.
The World Refugee Survey by US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants estimate the number of refugees in India at 456,000. The number of refugees who have registered with UNHCR is however around 47,000. [16] Tibet - 110,098 [17] Sri Lanka (Tamil Eelam) - 64,208; Arakan - 40,000+ Afghanistan - 10,196 Somalia - 465 Iraq - 287 Palestine - 79 Iran - 72