Support for the Victims of Human Rights Violations in Iran

Amplifying Voices. Protecting Rights. Delivering Justice. Verein Welle, a Swiss NGO with two decades of defending Iranian human rights, leads this mission.

Verein Welle is Partner of

the following renowned organizations

What is the problem?

In Iran, widespread human rights violations, particularly against women, political prisoners, and civil society activists, continue with impunity.

Executions reported in 2024

Hanged in 4 months (2025)

Of resistance against repression             

Needs on the Ground

Advocacy Support

Campaigns that raise awareness at political level & on global media platforms. Advocacy helps generate political pressure for release, protection, and reform.

Legal Aid

Legal support, from international bodies, can intervence in cases of death sentences, unjust detentions, or retaliation against family members.

Humanitarian Relief

Activists and their families are often cut off from work, healthcare, and safe housing. In exile, many live in precarious situations without legal status or support.

An association for the defense of human rights in Iran

We are a charitable, non-denominational association, founded 2004 and registered in commercial register in canton Zurich.


Our Solution

Verein Welle’s Project

Combining grassroots experience with international reach. We support those on the frontline while amplifying their stories to the world stage.

Our work doesn’t stop at support. It escalates cases to European parliaments, UN bodies, and global press.

Our team includes native Farsi speakers and individuals with lived experience of repression and exile. This ensures trust and access.

We don’t wait for bureaucratic approvals. Our structure allows us to quickly find a lawyer, house a refugee, or launch an alert.

We work through vetted networks of lawyers, Jurists, NGOs, and human rights monitors.


Welle’s Track Record & Impact

Welle aided 3,000 Iranian dissidents in surviving an imminent massacre. We funded their transport, housing, medical treatment and medications, giving them a safe future. More than 2,000 detained human rights activists in Iran have survived torture and execution.

Campaigns that raise awareness at the UN, in EU parliaments, and on global media platforms. Advocacy helps generate political pressure for release, protection, and reform.

Legal support, from international bodies, can intervence in cases of death sentences, unjust detentions, or retaliation against family members.

Activists and their families are often cut off from work, healthcare, and safe housing. In exile, many live in precarious situations without legal status or support.


Ongoing Activities & Projects

Our responsibility, first and foremost, is to work towards saving human lives.

Prisoner campaigns: Urgent campaigns to stop executions

Women’s rights: support for Iranian women

Awareness & education: refugees medical & legal assistance

Awareness: Events, documentaries and publications

Independent

Independent financial audit 

20

Years of Experience

Tax 

Exempt 

Transparency

Governed by a general assembly and five-member board.

Why Verein Welle

2 decades of rescuing thousands of individuals with voluntarily work

A tax-exempt Swiss association, under 8% administrative costs 

Each year the charity provides donors with its annual report by post


Our Mission

Welle’s mission is to promote human rights and freedom in Iran. We work to end torture and arbitrary executions, and to uphold universal rights.

Advocate for the recognition and protection of fundamental human rights across Iran, with a focus on freedom of expression, access to justice, and protection from arbitrary detention and discrimination.

Provide essential support: basic health care, legal aid, and material assistance, to victims of the oppressive regime, political persecution, and displacement in exile, to help them regain safety, dignity, and a voice.

Advocate for the women and girls rights against legal, cultural, and systemic inequalities. Raise awareness around gender-based violence, to ensure full and equal participation in society.

Empower and educate individuals to engage in civic life, defend fundamental freedoms, and build inclusive institutions rooted in human rights, by promoting transparency, accountability, and the rule of law.


Donate Now: Your Help Saves Lives

Immediate impact: Your gift provides medicine and care for desperate refugees. For example:

Provides one month of legal defense for a political prisoner.

A media campaign to spotlight ongoing abuses and human right violations in Iran.

Every euro you donate keeps people alive and stabilizes the community.     

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sharif@vereinwelle.org