Religion [October 2010]
The aim of this first edition of the Iran Human Rights Review is to develop public understanding of the fundamental challenge to human rights in general, and the right to religion or belief in particular, posed by the Iranian regime. It seeks to put forward a vision of a future in which Iranians are free to follow the call of their consciences to worship as they wish to do so or not to at all, while laying out some of the steps needed to realise such a vision.
PrefaceIntroductionOn Human Rights and Democracy in IranChallenges of Implementing Women's Rights in IranIran’s Human Rights Deficit: Is Islam the Culprit?Freedom of ConscienceWhy Human Rights Abuses in Iran Should Concern People EverywhereThe Third Form of Totalitarianism: “The Islamic Republic of Iran”Human Rights, Religion and LawsVelayat-e Faqih, Law and Human Rights Resources