Iran Human Rights

Iran Human Rights

Founded	July 2005; 18 years ago (2005-07)
Founder	Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam
Type	Nonprofit International non-governmental organization
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Location	Global
Fields	Abolition human rights, protecting human rights defenders, empowering civil society, promoting all human rights for all citizen
Director	Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam
Website	www.iranhr.net

Iran Human Rights (IHR) (Persian: سازمان حقوق بشر ایران) is a non-profit international non-governmental organization focused on human rights in Iran. Founded in 2005, it is a non-partisan and politically independent organisation based in Oslo, Norway. The human rights defender and neuroscientist Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam is the co-founder and international spokesperson of the organisation.^[1]

Iran Human Rights' work is focused on the abolition of the death penalty, supporting human rights defenders, empowering civil society and promoting all human rights for all citizens. As well as reporting on breaches of human rights, IHR also publishes a bi-weekly Persian-language legal magazine called "Hoghooghe Ma", translated to "Our Rights", and airs a television program called "Edam Bas Ast", translated to "Enough Executions."