Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran A/RES/67/182 other media representatives, bloggers, clerics, artists and lawyers, including by releasing persons detained arbitrarily or on the basis of their political views; (j) To end restrictions placed on Internet users and Internet providers that violate the rights to freedom of expression, association and privacy; (k) To end restrictions on the press and media representatives, including the selective jamming of satellite broadcasts; (l) To uphold, in law and in practice, procedural guarantees to ensure due process of law; Also calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to 8. strengthen its national human rights institutions in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles); 8 9. Notes the recent engagement by the Islamic Republic of Iran with the Human Rights Committee, including the submission of its first periodic report in more than 17 years, and calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to consider acting upon the concluding observations adopted by the Committee; 9 10. Calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to effectively implement its obligations under those international human rights treaties to which it is already a party, to withdraw any reservations it may have made upon signature or ratification of other international human rights instruments where such reservations are overly general, imprecise or could be considered incompatible with the object and purpose of the treaty, to consider acting upon the concluding observations concerning the Islamic Republic of Iran adopted by the bodies of the international human rights treaties to which it is a party, and to consider ratifying or acceding to the international human rights treaties to which it is not already a party; 11. Urges the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran and other international human rights mechanisms, including by allowing the Special Rapporteur unfettered access to the country to carry out his mandate; 12. Encourages the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to continue exploring cooperation on human rights and justice reform with the United Nations, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; 13. Expresses deep concern that, despite the standing invitation issued by the Islamic Republic of Iran to all thematic special procedures mandate holders, it has not fulfilled any requests from those special mechanisms to visit the country in seven years and has left unanswered the vast majority of the numerous and repeated communications from those special mechanisms, and strongly urges the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to fully cooperate with the special mechanisms, including facilitating their visits to its territory, so that credible and independent investigations of all allegations of human rights violations can be conducted; 14. Strongly encourages the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to seriously consider all of the recommendations put forward at its universal periodic _______________ 8 Resolution 48/134, annex. Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/67/40), vol. I, para. 107. 9 5/6