A resolution calling for a renewed focus on the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran's violations of internationally-recognized human rights as found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Bill: 111-sres-415
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2010-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Detention of persons
Due process and equal protection
Human rights
International law and treaties
Iran
Middle East
News media and reporting
Protest and dissent
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-02-11
text: 
Pays tribute to the democracy and human rights advocates in the Islamic Republic of Iran who are engaged in peaceful efforts to encourage democratic reform.
 
 Notes that it is the right of the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran to peacefully assemble and to express their opinions without intimidation and violence.
 
 Supports freedom of speech and judicial due process in the Islamic Republic of Iran. 
 
 Expresses concern over the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran's suppression of its citizens through censorship, imprisonment, and violence and denounces the atmosphere of impunity in Iran for those who employ intimidation or violence to suppress freedoms of speech, expression, assembly, and the press.
 
 Calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to observe the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and abide by U.N. General Assembly resolutions.
 
 Communicates deep concern that, despite the Islamic Republic of Iran's standing invitation to all thematic special procedures mandate holders, it has not fulfilled any requests from those special mechanisms to visit the country in four years and has not answered numerous communications from those special mechanisms. 
 
 Encourages the U.N. Human Rights Council to fully examine these issues during its Universal Periodic Review of the Islamic Republic of Iran on February 15, 2010.

action_date: 2010-02-11
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Pays tribute to the democracy and human rights advocates in the Islamic Republic of Iran who are engaged in peaceful efforts to encourage democratic reform.
 
 Notes that it is the right of the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran to peacefully assemble and to express their opinions without intimidation and violence.
 
 Supports freedom of speech and judicial due process in the Islamic Republic of Iran. 
 
 Expresses concern over the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran's suppression of its citizens through censorship, imprisonment, and violence and denounces the atmosphere of impunity in Iran for those who employ intimidation or violence to suppress freedoms of speech, expression, assembly, and the press.
 
 Calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to observe the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and abide by U.N. General Assembly resolutions.
 
 Communicates deep concern that, despite the Islamic Republic of Iran's standing invitation to all thematic special procedures mandate holders, it has not fulfilled any requests from those special mechanisms to visit the country in four years and has not answered numerous communications from those special mechanisms. 
 
 Encourages the U.N. Human Rights Council to fully examine these issues during its Universal Periodic Review of the Islamic Republic of Iran on February 15, 2010. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-02-11
text: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S589-592; text as passed Senate: CR S592; text of measure as introduced: CR S571)
action_date: 2010-02-11
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S589-592; text as passed Senate: CR S592; text of measure as introduced: CR S571)
action_date: 2010-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate