rans representative at the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly has warned that the recent increase in hate-mongering speeches by Western politicians is a serious threat to human rights. Mohammad Zareian made the remarks while addressing a virtual meeting of the committee on Thursday evening, which was held on the subject of a report by the ...

MNA The Spokesperson of the Iranian ministry of foreign affairs Abbas Mousavi censured approval of an anti-Iranian human rights resolution in the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Mousavi said that the resolution, which has been proposed by Sweden and supported by some western countries, is a political one and adopts selective,...

MNA The UN Human Rights Council has praised Iran for enacting laws and policies to uphold the rights of persons with disabilities and for efforts taken to reduce poverty. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group reviewed the situation of human rights in Iran at the headquarters of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva on Friday. ...

Press TV - Iran's ambassador and permanent representative to the UN office in Geneva says the US sanctions and unilateral punitive measures have very broad and serious impacts on the fundamental human rights and are tantamount to crimes against humanity. Addressing the 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Esmaeil Baqaei ...

IRNA - The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday appointed Mr. Javaid Rehman as rapporteur for Iran affairs. Rehman, a Pakistani by nationality, is a professor of Islamic law and Muslim constitutionalism at Brunel Law School. He is replacing Ms. Asma Jilani Jahangir who was a Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist. Jahangir ...

Press TV - The United States has announced its withdrawal from the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC) over what it calls the bodys entrenched bias against Israel. The announcement was made by US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley alongside US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department in Washington on Tuesday. The ...

IRNA The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution extending the mandate on Iran. Adopted along with five other resolutions in a meeting in Geneva on Friday, the resolution on Iran extended by a period of one year the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran. Some 21 members of the Council voted in favor ...

MNA Syrias Permanent Representative at the UN in Geneva, Ambassador Hussam Eddin Ala, affirmed that the real purpose of holding the session of the Human Rights Council about Ghouta on Friday is to protect the terrorist organizations and cover up their crimes. In his speech during a discussion session of the Human Rights Council on the situation ...

IRNA Senior Iranian official criticized the UN Human Rights Council's anti-Iran efforts and said that appointing special rapporteur on human rights is politically motivated. Appointment of special rapporteur on human rights in Iran is politically-motivated and unjust, Head of the Iranian Judiciary's Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani said ...

MNA Deputy FM Mr. Abbas Araghchi will depart Tehran for Geneva on Tuesday evening to attend a session of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araghchi is scheduled to travel to the Swiss capital in order to address the 34th session of the Human Rights Council....

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi said the child-killing Saudi regimes membership in the United Nations Human Rights Council is proof of politically-motivated approaches to the issue of human rights. A regime that is known by everyone as a child-killing regime and has no respect ...

Tehran, Dec 18, IRNA With almost a million people having crossed the Mediterranean as refugees and migrants so far this year, and conflicts in Syria and elsewhere continuing to generate staggering levels of human suffering, 2015 is likely to exceed all previous records for global forced displacement, UNHCR warned in a new report Friday. UNHCR's ...

A rights group has dismissed as scandalous the appointment of Saudi Arabia as the head of a key panel in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). It is scandalous thatthe UN chose a country that has beheaded more people this year than ISIS (Daesh) to behead of a keyhuman rights panel. Petro-dollars and politics have trumped human rightsHillel ...

[caption id="attachment_19904" align="alignright" width="167"] Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin[/caption] he Russian Permanent Representative to the UN has no doubt that the CIA tortures will be on the UN Human Rights Council's agenda. MOCSOW, December 20 (Sputnik) The US torture practices may be brought ...

True death toll is likely to be higher than figure announced by UN human rights official that includes victims of MH17 plane crash The number of people confirmed killed in theUkraineconflict has risen above 3,000 if the victims of the MH17 plane crash are included, a senior UN human rights official said on Monday. Ivan Simonovic, the UN assistant ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's envoy to the UN offices in Geneva Mohsen Naziri Asl, whose country chairs the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), underlined the block's condemnation of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and urged the UN Human Rights Council to take tough action against the terrorist group's crimes in Iraq. The Iranian envoy made the remarks ...

[caption id="attachment_114376" align="alignright" width="204"] The homes of suspected Isis supporters are set ablaze in Zummar, northern Iraq. Photograph: Martin Bader/Demotix/Corbis[/caption] Human rights council holds special session over alleged rights abuses and violations of humanitarian law by Islamic militants The UNhuman rightscouncil is ...

[caption id="attachment_107905" align="alignright" width="238"] Israeli forces fire towards Gaza from their position near the coastal enclave on July 21, 2014.[/caption] GENEVA - Israel may have committed war crimes by killing civilians and shelling houses and hospitals during its two-week-old offensive in the Gaza Strip, U.N. High Commissioner for ...

[caption id="attachment_46979" align="alignright" width="180"] Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Syria's Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari stressed that the decisions on Syria in the report of the UN Human Rights Council were based on unilateral media information consistent with the ...