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Key	BIB38789
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	International Human Rights Law : A Case Study of the Persecuted Baha’i Community in Iran
Journal	Columbia Undergraduate Law Review (New york)
Author	Hagharmehdiabadi, Rooha
Year	2022
Date	Spring Transatlantic 2022
Issue	3
Volume	18
Abstract	This article examines the persecution of the Bahá’í community in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in the context of growing human rights norms and law, discussing both the potential and shortcomings of international human rights instruments in creating favorable outcomes for religious minorities. Conventional frameworks for the study of the impact of human rights, namely the top-down and bottom-up approach, are used to analyze the extent to which Iran’s status as a signatory of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) has 1) shifted state policy, and 2) endowed civil society with a new language and tool to push towards compliance. Pertaining to this study is the political system of Iran and its highly repressive society which create barriers to both top-down implementation of treaty provisions at the legal and institutional level and the bottom-up diffusion of norms through civil society activity. Making mandatory the First Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is discussed as the most viable solution for creating a new avenue through which states are pushed towards compliance
Language	English
Keywords	PERSECUTION; IRAN; INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS; HUMAN RIGHTS; ENFORCEMENT; INTERNATIONAL LAW
Pages	72–103
Legal note	11.
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