The number of Americans on jobless benefits surged between mid-September and mid-October, govt.'s data showed on Tue., suggesting an elevated unemployment rate in October as an uncertain economic environment discourages hiring.

New investigations reveal how the Zionist regime stands at the center of a global organ trafficking network, and how recent arrests link decades of scandals and the genocide in Gaza to a vast and unaccountable illegal trade.

Israeli occupation forces, who have a long record of committing crimes against journalists, opened fire on a member of Al Jazeera’s media team, injuring him.

The United Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories warned today that Israel’s genocidal practices in Gaza have inflicted unimaginable pain and suffering.

Following a request for mutual legal assistance submitted by the General Directorate of International Legal and Judicial Cooperation of Iran’s Judiciary regarding the suspicious death of an Iranian youth in South Africa, the judicial authorities of that country, after receiving and reviewing t...

Records obtained by Amnesty International and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a New York-based privacy and civil rights group, after a five-year long lawsuit against the New York Police Department (NYPD) reveal concerning surveillance abuses against protesters and communiti...

The High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in response to the baseless claims of the Chairperson of the so‑called International Independent Fact‑Finding Mission during the session of the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, announced in its statement that t...

The Deputy to the Secretary-General of the High Council for Human Rights, referring to the seriousness of various institutions in legally pursuing the issue of the United States’ and the Zionist regime’s aggression against Iran, stated that this process is continuing through cooperation ...

US joins Israel as only other country to not show for mandatory process scrutinising rights record of UN member states.

“Eleven months after the fall of the former government in Syria, we continue to receive worrying reports about dozens of abductions and enforced disappearances,” Spokesperson Thameen Al-Keetan said at a press briefing in Geneva.