Topic: 2025 – Treatment of Prisoners
Country: Iran
Delegate Name: Ella Rose
Treatment of Prisoners
As many nations deal with overcrowding, bad healthcare, and many other problems in regard to its treatment of prisoners in jails and prisons, this committee wants to focus on putting stronger mandates on how countries treat their prisoners. As the delegation of Iran, prisoners’ rights are something we have made progress in, within the past couple of years. We have made many advancements in legal protections and working collaboratively internationally.
As the delegation of Iran, we believe that harsh crimes call for harsh punishments, but
We would like to focus on working more towards helping nations like ourselves improve the treatment of prisoners while also still respecting each country’s religious independence and national sovereignty, with respect to the UNDHR. Some things that Iran would like to recommend that the Human Rights Council can help with are training programs for prison staff to know the prisoners’ rights and how they should be treated. Additionally, we would like to see member states, in addition to the HRC, provide assistance in creating NPMs (National Preventive Mechanisms). Iran also looks favorably upon creating mechanisms, reporting, and lowering the overcrowding issues globally. Lastly, we want to focus on the questions like: what defines a prisoner? Or, where do we draw the line at harsh and cruel punishments?
Ultimately, these are the types of questions that Iran would like to focus on in this committee. We also would like to emphasize how much this issue is real and can be, but we as a committee also need to be conscious of how certain rules can interfere with national sovereignty and cultural independence.
