Pijl, H (2023) An Assessment of the International Community's Role in the Current Human Rights Violations in Iran. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Women in Iran are familiar with strict religious rules surrounding the way they should dress and behave. These rules are closely connected to feminine honour norms and are claimed to restrict women of their freedom, especially because they are enforced by the aggressive and invasive morality police. Surrounding these oppressions and the recent killing of Masha (Jina) Amini, citizens have started protesting for the freedom of women, often resulting in arrest and execution of protesters. Following the United Nations’ Responsibility to Protect, these oppressions fall under the category of crimes against humanity. In this paper, I answer the research question: Does the international community have the duty to intervene to attempt to end the women’s rights violations and harsh reactions targeted at current protesters by the Iranian government, according to theories of responsibility and complicity? by arguing that states in the international community and individuals living in these states are complicit in the current human rights violations in Iran, following outcome and remedial responsibility and political and metaphysical guilt. After this, I advise that states express their power through the Security Council to intervene in these crimes against humanity, and that individuals within these states act on their responsibility by implementing future-looking interventions while thinking critically and keeping in mind the context and intersectionality surrounding the current events.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | McKeown, M.C. |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2023 09:47 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2023 09:47 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/269 |
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