A/RES/62/168 other minorities, recognized or otherwise, to refrain from monitoring individuals on the basis of their religious beliefs, and to ensure that access of minorities to education and employment is on par with that of all Iranians; (g) To implement, inter alia, the 1996 report of the Special Rapporteur on religious intolerance, 6 which recommended ways in which the Islamic Republic of Iran could emancipate the Baha’i community; 5F (h) To end the harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents and human rights defenders, including by releasing persons imprisoned arbitrarily or on the basis of their political views; (i) To uphold due process of law rights and to end impunity for human rights violations; 4. Encourages the thematic special procedures of the Human Rights Council to visit the Islamic Republic of Iran and otherwise continue their work to improve the situation of human rights in the country, and urges the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to live up to the commitment it made when it issued a standing invitation to special procedures by cooperating with them, and to illustrate how their subsequent recommendations are being addressed; Decides to continue its examination of the situation of human rights in 5. the Islamic Republic of Iran at its sixty-third session under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”, and to this end requests the SecretaryGeneral to submit to it at that session a comprehensive report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. 76th plenary meeting 18 December 2007 _______________ 6 See E/CN.4/1996/95/Add.2. 3

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