A set of committees, working groups, processes, and UN bodies contribute to safeguarding the promotion of respect for human rights.
The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is an intergovernmental body established by the General Assembly in March 2006 to address human rights concerns and to make recommendations to the General Assembly. The HRC is comprised of 47-member states that are elected by the UN General Assembly. Members of the Council are elected by the General Assembly to three year terms. The Human Rights Council uses several tools to perform its work. Its primary instruments are the Special Procedures, Universal Periodic Review, and the UN Treaty Bodies.
The Special Procedures are a set of mandates that are established and authorized by the Human Rights Council to monitor, investigate, and report on 37 human rights themes globally, and on the human rights situations in 8 countries. Mandates are established by majority vote of the HRC Member States and they appoint individuals,or groups of individuals (also known as working groups) to manage the mandates. These individuals are called Special Representatives or Rapporteurs. Special Procedures usually receive allegations of human rights violations from individuals and/or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are investigated and analyzed by appointees.
The UN Human Rights Council also monitors human rights in all Members of the United Nations through a process known as the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR is a process that allows for the review of the human rights records of all 192 UN Member States . The UPR is a State-driven process, where States are required to submit a self-assessment of its human rights record to the Human Rights Council.
The implementation of human rights treaties is monitored through committees called the Treaty Bodies. Each treaty has its own committee that is assigned to ensure that parties to conventions protect and promote human rights guaranteed in the conventions every five years.
Full report (PDF) - 16 January 1995 - Report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran prepared by the Special Representative of the Commission, Mr. Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1994/73 and Economic and Social Council decision ...
Full report (PDF) - 28 January 1993 - Final Report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, pursuant to Commission resolution 1992/67 of 4 March ...
Full report (PDF) - 14 October 1994 - The interim report prepared by Mr. Reynaldo Galindo Pohl (El Salvador), Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in accordance with paragraph 14 of Commission on Human ...
Full report (PDF) - 2 February 1994 - This is the final report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran prepared by the Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, pursuant to Commission resolution 1993/62 of 10 March ...