Bahá’í Community in Botswana Welcome UN rights resolution :: Mmegi Online

Following the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 while in custody of the Guidance Patrol, the religious morality police of Iran’s government, for not wearing the hijab in accordance with the government standards, and protests that ensued thereafter, the United Nations convened a special session to address human rights issues in the country.

On November 24, 2022, the Human Rights Council convened a special session to address ‘the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially with respect to women and children’.

The Special Session was requested through an official letter dated November 11 signed by Katharina Stasch, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations Office and other International Organisations in Geneva and Einar Gunnarsson, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations Office and other International Organisations in Geneva.

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