Iran

On the occasion of the 13 th of Aban (4 November), the High Council for Human Rights issued a statement emphasizing that this day serves as a reminder of the fundamental truth that freedom and human dignity are not privileges to be granted by global ...

Zarif urges Germany to "stop despicable COVID19 apartheid"

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message advised German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and the E3 to stop despicable COVID apartheid before commenting on what Iran should do.

Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen at protest: Officials

A Palestinian teenager has been killed in clashes with the Israeli army on the sidelines of a protest in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

HR official: Deal with terrorism in Iran as in France and Austria just for once!

In separate letters to the UN Secretary General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Secretary of High Council for Human Rights demanded that they condemn the assassination of martyred Mohsen Fakhrizade and deal with terrorism in Iran just...

UN chief deplores contemporary slavery, saying still 40m victims

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on the International Day for Abolition of Slavery, December 2, 2020 said that over 40 million people are still victims of contemporary slavery of whom 71 percent are women and girls.

UN humanitarian office puts Yemen war dead at 233,000, mostly from ‘indirect causes’

Almost a quarter of a million people have died in Yemen’s war, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on its website on Tuesday, confirming the huge toll from a conflict that has ravaged Yemen’s economy and created the...

HR chief: How is Fakhrizade assassination justified by CFT domestic supporters?

On a radio interview broadcast on Tuesday, the Secretary of High Council for Human Rights discussed different aspects of martyred Mohsen Fakhrizade assassination and said that such assassinations have been executed several times by the Zionist regime...

Palestinian student released from Israeli jail after 15 months

Mays Abu Ghosh, a 22-year-old Palestinian student, was released by Israeli forces on Monday, 15 months after she was arrested.

International Seminar in Vienna condemns US unlawful sanctions

International Seminar in Vienna condemned the US unlawful Unilateral Coercive Measures, saying the US violates sovereignty of states in contravention of Charter of the United Nations and should be revoked, especially in current critical situation the...

Victim of Sardasht chemical warfare demands UN chief to bring to justice perpetrators

Farideh Shafei, the victim of the 1987 Sardasht chemical attack in a letter to Secretary General of United Nations António Guterres called for bringing to justice perpetrators of the chemical warfare.

States who do not denounce terrorism have interests in it: HR official

On a radio interview broadcast on Monday, the Secretary of High Council for Human Rights said that western countries led by the US assess every incident based on their interests and that is the reason why they have not condemned the assassination of ...