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Iran’s Human Rights Secretary has condemned the EU’s recent sanctions on three Iranian passenger airlines, calling them a violation of international law and an infringement on Iranian citizens’ rights.

Iran vaccinates 20,000 elderly and disabled people against Corona virus: Official

20,000 elderly and disabled people across the country injected the Corona virus vaccine on Friday.

High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Human Rights Council: Serious violations by Israel in the occupied Palestine

The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting held an interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on her report on ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the occupied Palestinian territory...

Judiciary chief: US, Western Govts violated Human Rights in Iran-Iraq war

Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday that Iran must reveal to the world that how the US and the Western governments violated Human Rights during the 8-year imposed war to achieve their evil wishes.

46th Human Rights Council session held on line

The Human Rights Council this morning opened its forty-sixth regular session, hearing from Nazhat Shameem Khan, President of the Council; Volkan Bozkir, President of the General Assembly; António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General; Michelle B...

Oxfam: British arms sales prolonging Saudi war in Yemen

Oxfam has accused the British government of prolonging the war in Yemen by allowing the export of air-to-air refueling equipment that it fears could be used to help the Saudi air force conduct indiscriminate bombing in the country.

Mental health of young people worsening in UK: Experts

About 7% of children have attempted suicide by the age of 17 and almost one in four say they have self-harmed in the past year, according to a paper in the British Journal of Psychiatry, and experts say the figures could rise as a result of the pande...

Human Rights Council Festival does not put a smile on faces of Palestinian and Yemeni people: HR official

Mentioning the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Ali Bagheri kani criticized the political approach to human rights issues saying that it does not put a simile on the lips of humanity.

Study: UK homeless deaths rise by more than a third in a year

Deaths among homeless people have risen by more than a third in a year, according to an analysis by a social justice group that found that almost 1,000 unhoused people had died across the UK in 2020.

Domestic COVID-19 vaccine to be 10 million doses per month: Official

An official in charge of the vaccine production plan at the Executive Office of the Order of Imam Khomeini Hassan Jalili said on Sunday that the production capacity of the first Iran-made COVID vaccine COV-Iran Barekat will be more than 10 million do...

Asylum seekers in UK 'subjected to sexual harassment' in government hotels: Report

The Home Office has been urged to investigate the network of hotels holding thousands of asylum seekers following allegations of sexual harassment, intimidation and claims that staff have been paid significantly below the minimum wage.