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IRANIAN youngsters are being deprived of their basic rights by the effects of privatisation and a monopoly of wealth and power, according to a leading children’s rights group.
The Society to Aid Children At Risk (SACR) warned that rising poverty is forcing pupils to drop out of school and go to work to provide for their families.
Statistics show that there are around seven million child labourers in Iran, with most concentrated in small workshops where conditions are poor.
The ceasefire may have halted the fighting for now, but years of economic warfare and recent military attacks have left millions of Iranians facing hardship and uncertainty, says Codir’s RUBEN BRETT
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI
Meanwhile, over 110 human rights organisations and trade unions demand the EU immediately suspend its trade agreement with Israel over its ‘egregious human rights abuses against Palestinians’