Iran’s Deputy Judiciary Chief for International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi on Thursday criticized Western countries for using human rights issues as a tool to exert pressure on independent states, expressing regret that the rights issues have been politicized to such extent.

By Nadine Farid Johnson

Opposition parties and children's advocates accused the U.K. government on Tuesday of putting vulnerable young people in danger, after authorities said scores of children who arrived in Britain as asylum-seekers have disappeared.

Serbia first lady said on Tuesday that holding World Influential Women Congress based on an initiative by Islamic Republic of Iran is praiseworthy and Serbia supports the move aimed at exaltation of women's status.

A member of Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said that head of that commission, government and judiciary officials, and some parliament members in commission's Tuesday session surveyed latest status of Hamid Nouri judiciary field in Sweden.

Mental health and legal experts said that practices employed by corrections officers every day in county jails can put prisoners and staff at risk of injury and can harm vulnerable people who may be scheduled to return to society within months.

Experts say Indigenous deaths tied to lasting impacts of colonialism, poverty

Sexism remains at an "alarming" level in France with many young men judging discriminatory or violent behaviour against women to be acceptable, a report published Monday found.

The high representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations condemned the burning of the Muslim holy book by a Swedish-Danish far-right politician as a “vile act”.

Several human rights organizations have called for the immediate release of two of Saudi Arabia’s “prisoners of conscience,” as Riyadh is tightening the noose on freedom of speech inside the kingdom.