mother tongue at school has pushed the Arabs into protesting, protests which are then usually suppressed with extreme violence. In order to limit the increasing violence against the Arab Ahwazi minority the Ahwaz Human Rights Organization asks this forum and the organisations of international society to put pressure on the Iranian government through the mechanisms of the United Nations to keep to its pledged commitments to protect minorities and to work to implement the following advice: 1. Stop executions and arbitrary arrests and to set free political prisoners and those imprisoned for their opinions. 2. Carry out a census of Arab inhabitants and acknowledge their existence and ethnic identity and respect their economic, cultural and political rights. 3. Stop the plans to divert the water of the river Karun and other rivers and limit environmental pollution through releasing river water and fighting desertification. 4. Stop displacement and counter migration and the seizure of land belonging to Arab inhabitants originally from this region. 5. Allow the Arab minorities to form parties and civil society organisations and publish newspapers and publications in their language. 6. Fight unemployment, poverty and illiteracy, provide job opportunities and give priority in job appointments to Arabs in oil installations and government institutions. 7. Stop the habitual racist discourse against the Arabs in the curriculum and in the media and allow teaching in Arabic in schools and universities. 8. Take urgent steps to stop dangerous respiratory diseases such as asthma, cancer, skin diseases and internal diseases caused by air pollution and polluted drinking water and establish hospitals specialising in curing those suffering from these dangerous diseases. 9. Allocate a portion of the oil returns for construction and improving the environmental situation.