A/RES/56/171

Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Body: General Assembly, session 56
Date: 2001-12-19
Committee report: A/56/583/Add.3
Meeting record: A/56/PV.88
Draft: A/C.3/56/L.50
Agenda item(s): Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives.

Tally

Yes 72No 49Abstain 46Did not vote 22

Roll call

'Did not vote' combines members that were absent and members present that did not participate; the source does not distinguish them.

Roll call – A/RES/56/171
Country	Position
Albania	Yes
Andorra	Yes
Australia	Yes
Austria	Yes
Bahamas (the) (as “BAHAMAS”)	Yes
Barbados	Yes
Belgium	Yes
Belize	Yes
Botswana	Yes
Bulgaria	Yes
Canada	Yes
Costa Rica	Yes
Croatia	Yes
Czechia (as “CZECH REPUBLIC”)	Yes
Denmark	Yes
Dominica	Yes
Ecuador	Yes
El Salvador	Yes
Estonia	Yes
Fiji	Yes
Finland	Yes
France	Yes
Germany	Yes
Greece	Yes
Grenada	Yes
Guatemala	Yes
Haiti	Yes
Honduras	Yes
Hungary	Yes
Iceland	Yes
Ireland	Yes
Israel	Yes
Italy	Yes
Japan	Yes
Kiribati	Yes
Latvia	Yes
Liechtenstein	Yes
Lithuania	Yes
Luxembourg	Yes
Malta	Yes
Marshall Islands	Yes
Mauritius	Yes
Micronesia (Federated States of)	Yes
Monaco	Yes
Naoero (as “NAURU”)	Yes
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (as “NETHERLANDS”)	Yes
New Zealand	Yes
Nicaragua	Yes
Norway	Yes
Palau	Yes
Panama	Yes
Papua New Guinea	Yes
Paraguay	Yes
Peru	Yes
Poland	Yes
Portugal	Yes
Republic of Moldova	Yes
Romania	Yes
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Yes
Samoa	Yes
San Marino	Yes
Slovakia	Yes
Slovenia	Yes
Solomon Islands	Yes
Spain	Yes
Suriname	Yes
Sweden	Yes
Trinidad and Tobago	Yes
Tuvalu	Yes
United Kingdom	Yes
United States	Yes
Yugoslavia	Yes
Afghanistan	No
Algeria	No
Armenia	No
Azerbaijan	No
Bahrain	No
Bangladesh	No
Belarus	No
Benin	No
Bhutan	No
Brunei Darussalam	No
Chad	No
China	No
Comoros	No
Congo	No
Cuba	No
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	No
Democratic Republic of the Congo	No
Djibouti	No
Egypt	No
Gambia	No
Guyana	No
India	No
Indonesia	No
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	No
Jordan	No
Kazakhstan	No
Lao People's Democratic Republic	No
Lebanon	No
Libya (as “LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA”)	No
Malaysia	No
Maldives	No
Mali	No
Mauritania	No
Morocco	No
Myanmar	No
Oman	No
Pakistan	No
Qatar	No
Russian Federation	No
Saudi Arabia	No
Senegal	No
Sri Lanka	No
Sudan	No
Syrian Arab Republic	No
Tunisia	No
Turkmenistan	No
United Republic of Tanzania	No
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (as “VENEZUELA”)	No
Viet Nam	No
Angola	Abstain
Antigua and Barbuda	Abstain
Argentina	Abstain
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (as “BOLIVIA”)	Abstain
Brazil	Abstain
Burkina Faso	Abstain
Burundi	Abstain
Cabo Verde (as “CAPE VERDE”)	Abstain
Cameroon	Abstain
Chile	Abstain
Colombia	Abstain
Côte d'Ivoire	Abstain
Cyprus	Abstain
Dominican Republic	Abstain
Equatorial Guinea	Abstain
Eritrea	Abstain
Ethiopia	Abstain
Gabon	Abstain
Georgia	Abstain
Ghana	Abstain
Guinea	Abstain
Jamaica	Abstain
Kenya	Abstain
Madagascar	Abstain
Malawi	Abstain
Mexico	Abstain
Mozambique	Abstain
Namibia	Abstain
Nepal	Abstain
Nigeria	Abstain
North Macedonia (as “THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA”)	Abstain
Philippines	Abstain
Republic of Korea	Abstain
Rwanda	Abstain
Saint Lucia	Abstain
Sierra Leone	Abstain
Singapore	Abstain
South Africa	Abstain
Thailand	Abstain
Togo	Abstain
Uganda	Abstain
Ukraine	Abstain
United Arab Emirates	Abstain
Uruguay	Abstain
Vanuatu	Abstain
Zambia	Abstain
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Did not vote
Cambodia	Did not vote
Central African Republic	Did not vote
Eswatini (as “SWAZILAND”)	Did not vote
Guinea-Bissau	Did not vote
Iraq	Did not vote
Kuwait	Did not vote
Kyrgyzstan	Did not vote
Lesotho	Did not vote
Liberia	Did not vote
Mongolia	Did not vote
Niger	Did not vote
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Did not vote
Sao Tome and Principe	Did not vote
Seychelles	Did not vote
Somalia	Did not vote
Tajikistan	Did not vote
Tonga	Did not vote
Türkiye (as “TURKEY”)	Did not vote
Uzbekistan	Did not vote
Yemen	Did not vote
Zimbabwe	Did not vote

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Topics

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Middle East · r-me-1

UN subject headings (verbatim)

HUMAN RIGHTS--IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)
HUMAN RIGHTS--REPORTS

Sources

Voting data: United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Security Council Voting Data (Version 7, October 2026), https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4055387, and General Assembly Voting Data (Version 6, October 2026), https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4060887. Vetoes: UN Peace & Security Data Hub, Security Council Data – Vetoes Since 1946 (DPPA-SCVETOES). © United Nations; used for non-commercial purposes with attribution.