Balochistan: Dignity, Freedom and Justice for All
Channel: ACI Iran
Date: 2023-12-09

The situation of civil, political, economic, social, cultural rights of the Iranian Baloch people

9 December 2023 – London – Reserve Your Spot

Panel 1 – 10:00 – 13:00 (ENGLISH)
Along with the issues concerning discrimination, poverty and human rights, the question we aim to discuss further is the continuous disproportionate use of the death penalty and the systematic use of lethal force against unarmed civilian population leading to many deaths in the Baluchistan region with regard to the ICC Statute and crimes against humanity:

Dr Fereydoon Rahmani – Associate Professor, Programme leader – Human Rights & Equity Studies ‘Comparative look: international standards, State responsibilities and the situation in Balochistan’
Ms Sabah Bandouie -‘Balochistan Human Rights Group’ UN representative ‘44 years of intentional systematic injustice’
Fariba Baloch – Human Rights Defeder: ‘Testimony of a mother, a woman and a Baloch human rights defender’
Dr Sima Sabet – Iran Expert: ‘A Strategic look to Balochistan’

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Hon. Bijan R. Kian – Former senior official of the United States Government: ‘Intentional economic development deprivation of specific regions in Iran linked with international narcotics trafficking’
Nasser Boladai  – Chairperson ‘Baluchistan People’s Party’ : ‘Crimes against humanity or inconsequential killings?’
Professor Payam Akhavan – Professor of International Law, Special Adviser on Genocide, ICC (TBC): ‘What are crimes against humanity?’
Professor Javaid Rehman – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran: ‘Balochistan and human rights’
9 December 2023 – London – Reserve Your Spot

Panel 2 –  14:00-18:00 (Persian)
Prospects for the future: Wider dimensions of poverty, multidimensional deprivation and discrimination based on religious, ethnic, and linguistic rights as told by activists and human rights defenders with special emphasis on the rights to education:

Dr Fereydoon Rahmani – Associate Professor, Programme leader: Human Rights & Equity Studies, ‘Comparative look: international standards, State responsibilities and the situation in Balochistan’
Mohsen Borhanzehi – Baloch Human Rights Defender: Testimonies from Iran: Maki Mosque 30 September 2022
Ms Fariba Baloch – Baloch Human Rights defender: Testimony of a human rights defender
Dr Roya Boroumand – Boroumand Foundation: Extra Judicial Killings and Executions
Ms Fariba Borhanzehi – Baloch child rights defender: Story of two little children – Hangol and Morid
Ms Shahin Nosrati – Writer, Women’s right defender: Women: Inequitable access to education and employment opportunities
Laebe Aram – Writer: ‘Intersectionality of culture, tradition and economic deprivation impacting the fate of Baloch women‘
Dr Abdolsatar Doshoki – political analyst: ‘Inequitable access to higher education’
Rahim Bandouie – ‘Baluchistan People’s Party’: ‘Economic discrimination and intentional poverty’
Masoud Raeisi – Journalist – ‘Poverty, multi-dimensional deprivation and prospects for the future‘
Messages from:
Dr Saeed Paivandi: Importance of education in building the future
Nik Ahang Kowsar: Water rights
Dr Rezvan Moghadam:  Stop Honour Killings!
Shirin Razavian: A poem for Balochistan