TEHRAN, October 17 -An independent human rights group says it documented 2,165 cases of grave human rights violations in Bahrain last year as the ruling Al Khalifah regime relentlessly continues with its crackdown on human rights activists and pro-democracy campaigners in the kingdom.
TEHRAN, October 16 - Iran’s envoy to the United Nations has slammed Washington’s ‘morally wrong’ measures against other countries, saying that unilateral sanctions amount to collective punishment and violate basic human rights .
TEHRAN, October 09 - The U.N. human rights office on Tuesday called for an independent probe into the death of a Venezuelan opposition lawmaker whom authorities say killed himself jumping off an intelligence agency building but whose party say was murdered.
TEHRAN, September 02 - The United Nations human rights mission left Nicaragua Saturday after being ordered out by a government it criticized over its heavy-handed response to anti-regime protests.
TEHRAN, August 24 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed concern Thursday over reports that human rights activists in Saudi Arabia face the death penalty.
TEHRAN, August 12 - A German man has learned the hard way that practicing journalism in China, even for a class project, could lead to serious trouble.
TEHRAN, August 12 -A United Nations human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.”
UNICEF says gunmen have attacked a convoy of humanitarian trucks belonging to a contractor of the United Nations Children's Fund in South Sudan, killing one person.
UNICEF says gunmen have attacked a convoy of humanitarian trucks belonging to a contractor of the United Nations Children's Fund in South Sudan, killing one person.
TEHRAN, June 27 - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has strongly denounced the Western states for their pretense of advocating human rights while in reality supporting terrorist groups and acts of terror.
TEHRAN, June 27 -Human rights group Amnesty International says Myanmar’s top military officials must be tried at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity over atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Buddhist-majority country.
TEHRAN, June 20 -A senior official at the Iranian Judiciary highlighted the Western propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic’ judicial system and said some countries who call themselves advocates of human rights commit terrorist acts under the cover of defending the rights.
TEHRAN, June 20 -Washington has decided to walk out of the UN Human Rights Council, accusing the body of hypocrisy. The US has long cited concerns about the body’s “anti-Israel bias.”
TEHRAN, June 18 - The top U.N. human rights official called on the Trump administration on Monday to halt its "unconscionable" policy of forcibly separating children from migrant parents irregularly entering the country via Mexico.
TEHRAN, June 17 - Ayatollah Araki said, “The challenges that American human rights is facing is an advanced example of secular human rights in the world which is in serious trouble in three areas of theory, vocabulary and behavior.”
TEHRAN, June 16 -The United States plans to quit the United Nation's Human Rights Council, primarily over Washington's claim that the UN’s main human rights body is biased against Israel, according to US and Western diplomats.
TEHRAN, May 29 -Yemen's Human Rights Council confirmed that the Saudi-led coalition has in the past 3 years committed dreadful crimes against the Yemeni people in Sa'ada province, specially 70 cases of massacre.
TEHRAN, April 26 - The U.N. human rights chief said he was allowed to visit a region in Ethiopia that has been roiled by protests and unrest for the past three years, after the previous administration turned down his request last year.
TEHRAN, April 25 - North Korea condemned US criticism of its human rights record as "ridiculous" as a diplomatic whirlwind accelerated ahead of leader Kim Jong Un's summits with the South and with US President Donald Trump.