A United Nations human rights expert has called for an independent assessment on the conditions at Bhasan Char, the remote island in Bangladesh where more than a thousand Rohingya were taken earlier this month, as he condemned the world’s “failure” to take action to help the refuge...

Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi called on the Western states not to politicize issues consistent with prohibition of chemical weapons.

Lashing out the double standards in human rights policies of western countries, the Deputy to the Secretary of HCHR said that the western approach toward the assassination of Dr.Fakhrizade symbolizes the contemptuous double standards in the scope of protecting human rights.

In a ceremony held in commemoration of the martyred scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizade, the Secretary of High Council for Human Rights condemned the approach taken by western countries with respect to ignoring the terrorist aspect of this assassination and said that our national interests require to be al...

Amid a COVID-19 outbreak at London’s Belmarsh prison, an independent UN expert appealed to British authorities on Tuesday to release Julian Assange or to place him under guarded house arrest during extradition proceedings to the United States.

Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence against the administrator of an anti-Iran Telegram channel Amad News who had been convicted of “corruption on earth” in a lower court.

Iranian Ambassador to Yemen Hassan Irlu in a message highlighted the prominent role of the US in aggression against the peoples of the regional countries including Yemen.

The use of Tasers and spit hoods on children should be banned in the UK, the global humanitarian organization for children Unicef has recommended.

Nearly 100,000 Rohingya refugees are being relocated by the Bangladeshi authorities to an isolated island called Bhashan Char in the Bay of Bengal.

Deaths of Afghan civilians in air raids carried out by the United States and its allies “increased dramatically” since 2017 when Washington loosened its criteria and escalated attacks on the Taliban, according to a report released on Monday.