With Belarus, China, Russia, South Africa, Venezuela, Vietnam and Iran voting against and 22 nations voting yes, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center was granted accredited consultative status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

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The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center was founded in 2004 by human rights scholars and lawyers. According to the IHRDC’s mission statement the center's aim is to “Establish a comprehensive and objective historical record of the human rights situation in Iran.” The center is often quoted in media about information on human rights abuses in Iran.

The accreditation gives IHRDC a consultative status within the U.N. and its human rights forums.

The United States Ambassador to the U.N Nikki Haley commented on the vote saying "these votes are wins for human rights." The application of the NGO was previously rejected in February.

Nikki Haley also noted that “Countries with abysmal human rights records should never be allowed to police NGO access, and credible NGOs should never be blocked from participating at the U.N., especially when their work sheds light on some of the world’s worst human rights abuses.”

This is fantastic news for Iran lovers, it is also fantastic news for all those who love freedom and abhor violation of basic human rights by tyrannies like the unreformable, expansionist and warmongering Islamist fascism ruling over Iran.

Ps. as a gesture to the Islamist fascists to facilitate his faulty legacy nuke deal, the ex-president Obama, the Islamist appeaser-in-Chief, cutoff the U.S. funding of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center.