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Annual
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2016
ODVV
deputy of UNIC in Tehran.
Some of the topics that were discussed by the experts in this ceremony included, the definition
of the victim and torture, torture as a crisis experience, types of crisis experience, objectives of
providing support to the torture victim, support provision techniques for the torture victim, practical
strategies to help and support the torture victim, and the necessity for receiving social and legal
support in support of torture victims for their return to life.
Evaluation of the Functionality of the UN in the Prevention of Human Rights
Violations Technical Sitting
The technical sitting on the Evaluation of the
Functionality of the UN in the Prevention of
Human rights Violations, with a stress on Israel
and Saudi Arabia was held by the ODVV.
In this sitting which was held on 3 August
2016, Mr. Hossein Gharibi Ministry of foreign
Affairs anti-terror senior expert, Dr. Amir
Saed lawyer and university lecturer and
international disputes legal consultant, and Dr
Mahmoudreza Golshanpazhooh senor expert
on human rights gave speeches in this sitting.
At the start of the sitting, Dr Golshanpazhooh
spoke of the reasons behind the concentration
on the subject of Saudi Arabia and Israel and
said, “the UN’s recent actions in appointing Israel to head the General Assembly’s Sixth Committee
and Saudi Arabia putting pressure on the Secretary General to retract his report on children, were
strange actions that have been taken by the UN in the recent years. And the question and doubt
is raised in public opinion that how much can there be hope for the UN?”
While deeming these types of UNactions as bad, DrAmir Saed believed theUNwas an unavoidable
entity and said: “the eroded and old structure of the UN, the existence of 5 permanent members
who represent a particular number of countries, the expansion and growth of the UN to an extent
where there is no possibility of its careful and direct monitoring, and the growing demands of the
international community and competing to get seats in the UN, are some of the faults that can
damage the functionality of the UN.”
While stressing on the necessity for the existence of the UN in the present international community’s