The NCRI Women’s Committee strongly condemns the appointment of Afsaneh Nadipour, a long-time operative of the misogynist clerical regime in Iran, to the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council.
According to the state-run media in Iran, Nadipour—former ambassador of the mullahs’ regime to Denmark—has for three decades served as a collaborator and apologist for the crimes of the misogynist dictatorship ruling Iran.
It is deeply regrettable that the Human Rights Council has accepted into its Advisory Committee a representative of a regime notorious for executions and known as the godfather of terrorism. This regime has been condemned in at least 71 United Nations resolutions for systematic and grave violations of human rights, and its leaders must be brought to justice for crimes against humanity and genocide.
Appointing a functionary of this criminal regime—which has executed more than 1,200 people, including 39 women, in just the first nine months of 2025—is in stark contradiction to the values and principles upon which the United Nations was founded. It constitutes a serious affront to human rights and universally recognized principles of justice.
The inclusion of such a figure in the Council’s Advisory Committee only emboldens the regime’s medieval machinery of execution, torture, and repression—particularly against women—and gives it further opportunities to justify its crimes.
The NCRI Women’s Committee calls for the immediate revocation of Afsaneh Nadipour’s appointment to the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee.
