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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has urged Pope Francis to encourage world leaders, especially Christian governments, to stop Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon and help establish a ceasefire.

UN experts call for arms embargo against Israel

Independent UN experts are calling for an arms embargo against Israel, stating that exporting countries risk violating international humanitarian law if the weapons supplied are used in the Gaza war, they said in Geneva on Friday.

Human Rights Groups Criticise Draft Bill on Detention Centres

The Icelandic Red Cross, UNICEF Iceland, Save the Children Iceland, and the Icelandic Human Rights Centre strongly criticise a draft bill that would establish detention centres for asylum seekers in Iceland. In its current form, the bill allows for t...

Hamid Nouri’s life sentence wrong, 'very disappointing': Swedish lawyer

The Swedish Court of Appeals has made a wrong and very disappointing decision to confirm the life sentence handed to Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian judiciary official who has been illegally incarcerated in Sweden, his Swedish lawyer says.

Protesters in London decry Israeli bloodshed in Gaza

Thousands of pro-Palestine supporters have staged a fresh rally in the British capital to demand an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Stripو following deadly airstrikes by the Zionist regime on the city of Rafah, located in southern part of the besiege...

WSJ faces ire for promoting racism, Islamophobia

Some American lawmakers and social media activists have severely criticized the Wall Street Journal after the newspaper published an article containing racist and Islamophobic contents.

Violence against Women and Girls in the United States

According to National Coalition against Domestic Violence, today, 1 in every 4 women in the United States experiences a form of domestic violence from their partner.

The UN Special Rapporteur Warned about the Implementation of Macron's Immigration Plan in France

The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism has described France's new immigration plan as unequal and said it will focus on the issue of discrimination in the country.

US support for Israel prevents to stop Gaza genocide: Iran FM to UNSC

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has accused the United States of preventing the UN Security Council to stop the Israel genocide in the Gaza Strip and establish a ceasefire there.

France: Incest and other Forms of Sexual Abuse against Children

United Nations experts on January 19, 2024 in a statement, urged France to protect children from sexual abuse in the family and address discriminatory treatment and violence suffered by mothers who try to protect their children from sexual predation....

Europe: Deportation and Extradition of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Amnesty International announced in a statement on January 17, 2024 that the authorities of European countries should immediately stop the transfer of refugees and asylum seekers belonging to the North Caucasus to Russia.