The Council on Human Rights "of the United Nations established a mandate of Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran. At the same time, expressed his "concern" about the "lack of cooperation" from the authorities of that country.
Brazil was one of the countries that voted in favor of the resolution. This was a sharp turn in U.S. foreign policy. Although new, it would not be received as a surprise, since the current president, Dilma Rousseff said, before assuming that would "carefully to progress in the situation of human rights everywhere. "
Over the past eight years the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who maintained close relations with the regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Brazil abstained or voted against all proposals to investigate the human rights situation in Iran.
This position seems to have changed, the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, the turn is related to the visit days before U.S. President Barack Obama, Rousseff in which they would have spoken on the subject.
The UN resolution was taken after its secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, a report for the first time directly into the dependence of the UN. The text warned that "human rights situation in Iran was marked by an intensification of repression against human rights defenders, activists for the rights of women, journalists and government opponents."
Since 2002, the Iranian regime has not authorized the renewal of the last mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the country and, since 2005, has not allowed into the country to any of the thematic rapporteurs of the UN.
The resolution, introduced by Sweden, was approved by 22 of the 47-member Council in Geneva. The United States, Panama and Colombia were among the who supported the measure. The countries that abstained were 14, while seven rejected it, among them China, Cuba, Ecuador, Pakistan and Russia.
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