Center for Human Rights in Iran

The Center for Human Rights in Iran (formerly the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran; ICHRI) is an American non-government organization that aims to promote human rights in Iran.[1][2]

The group started in late 2007 when several human rights activists working for the Dutch non-governmental organization 'Foundation for Human Security in the Middle East' wished to focus on the situation in Iran.[3]

Background

Hadi Ghaemi is the executive director (as of April 2019).[4] He graduated from Boston University in 1994 and then taught physics at New York University until 2000. He has worked for human rights since and, in 2003, received a research grant from the MacArthur Foundation.[5]

In October 2015, actor and activist Nazanin Boniadi joined the Board of Directors of the Center for Human Rights in Iran.[6]

See also

Endnotes

  1. "What We Do". Center for Human Rights in Iran. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  2. "Iran accuses the US of meddling in election crisis". Yahoo! News. June 17, 2009. Archived from the original on June 20, 2009. Retrieved June 19, 2009.
  3. About the campaign. iranhumanrights.org Accessed June 19, 2009.
  4. "Who we are". Center for Human Rights in Iran. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  5. Hadi Ghaemi Archived 2010-05-10 at the Wayback Machine. Iran Human Rights Voice Archived 2009-04-25 at the Wayback Machine. Published April 1, 2009. Accessed June 18, 2009.
  6. "Bio: Nazanin Boniadi". Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.


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