This report responds to the Call for Input issued by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding gender-related killings and other forms of violence against women and girls. This report focuses primarily on: the death penalty; legislation, policies, and practices concerning the criminal justice system that directly or indirectly discriminate on the basis of gender, impacting the right to life.

This report draws heavily upon a forthcoming report by Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) on women and the death penalty in Iran, IHRNGO’s 2021 “Women and the Death Penalty in Iran”, covering the period of 2010 through October 2021, “A Gender Perspective of the Death Penalty in Iran”, “Qarchak Prison: Hell for Women and Children in Iran,” as well as Iran Human Rights and ECPM’s annual reports on the death penalty, and IHRNGO’s news reports and articles on the death penalty, executions.