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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 Algiers Accords of January 19, 1981 was a set of obligations and commitments undertaken independently by the United States and Iran to resolve the Iran hostage crisis, brokered by the Algerian government and signed in Algiers on January 19, 1981. [1]
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 ...
There is a large population of Iraqis in Iran, including Iranian citizens of Iraqi descent and Iraqi citizens of Iranian descent. According to the 2001 Iran census, there were roughly 203,000 Iraqis living in Iran; [ 2 ] a UNHCR report counts 204,000 Iraqis living in Iran. [ 3 ]
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]
The IUSCT, headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, is composed of nine members: three appointed by Iran, three by the United States, and three neutral arbitrators selected by the parties' appointees. The tribunal began operations on July 1, 1981, and initially operated from the Peace Palace before moving to its permanent premises in The Hague.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 457, adopted unanimously on 4 December 1979, addressed the ongoing Iran hostage crisis.After expressing concern at the level of tensions between Iran and the United States as a potential threat to international security, the Council called on Iran to immediately release hostages held at the American embassy in Tehran and allow them to leave the country.
The Iraqi invasion of Iran in 1980 and the ensuing Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) triggered a deterioration of ties among the country's various ethnic and religious communities, and also exacerbated in violent events like the Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in northern Iraq (1968–2003), which led to the killing and displacement of thousands of ...