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Annual
Repor t
2014
ODVV
Technical Sitting on the Introduction to Human Rights Mechanisms of the UN
and the Review of the Human Rights Case of Iran
This technical sitting was held in joint cooperation of the ODVV and Public Diplomacy and the Medias
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for Iran and other Countries Friendship associations and a number
of active NGOs active at the international level.
This sitting was held on 2 September 2014 with the participation of the Friendship Association of Iran
and Other Countries, and a number of NGOs active at international level , with the aim of raising
awareness of the target community towards UN human rights mechanisms and playing a more
effective role in the UPR on Iran, at the Iranian Organization of International Conferences.
The sitting began
The sitting was opened by
director of the Third Office
of Public Diplomacy of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. While
welcoming the audience, he said
the holding of this sitting within
the framework of cooperation
with NGOs and friendship
associations.
Member of the ODVV board of
directors, while giving a history
of the formation of the modern
human rights order, explained
the structure and function of the Human Rights Council as one of the most important human rights
bodies in the international order. He stressed on the importance of the newly founded UPRmechanism
and stressed that the role playing in this mechanism towards the national interest of countries is very
necessary.
The director of the ODVV, while categorising the general atmosphere dominant in the subject of
human rights in Iran, he referred to the two parts of implicative and privative: “One of the most
serious damages in the human rights area of Iran, which makes the human rights situation more
difficult is the lack of correct distinction between various implicative and privative subjects which
requires the careful attention of the authorities.
At the end of the sitting there was a Q&A session by the participants of the sitting, and there were
repeated calls for the holding of similar sittings.