At the end of July, Iran made an announcement that it had issued standing invitations to United Nations
human rights monitoring mechanisms. These invitations allow U.N. officials monitoring issues such as
arbitrary detention, disappearances, or the right to development to freely conduct their fact-finding
investigations and report back to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. HRW had been
lobbying to grant the Special Rapporteur on Iran access to the country.
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Iran Issues Standing Invitation by UN Monitoring Inspectors
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