Western World

The United Kingdom government’s order to Apple to allow access to encrypted cloud data harms the privacy rights of users in the UK and worldwide, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today.

US resorts to anti-Iran show to cancel Iran membership in CSW

The United Nations will witness another show by the Biden administration, which attempts to pursue a dangerous path at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to pave the way for the cancellation of the Islamic Republic's membership in the intern...

HCHR slams West’s double standards toward unrest in Iran

The High Council for Human Rights of Iran has severely condemned double standards and paradoxical approaches by human rights entities and the West when it comes to protests and unrest in the Islamic Republic.

The Fight to End Forced Sterilization of Disabled Women and Girls in Europe

Sixteen women with intellectual disabilities who lived in Balti Psycho-neurological Hospital, Moldova, were repeatedly raped by the institute’s lead physician, Stanislav Florea. Two of these women became pregnant and were forced to end their pregnanc...

Iran responds to human rights accusations

The High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran has issued a statement in reaction to a meddlesome communique by foreign ministers of the US and its allies, condemning unfounded accusations against the Islamic Republic on the rights...

US sanctions violate Iranian people’s rights to clean environment, health and life: UN experts

U.S. sanctions are contributing to environmental harm in Iran and preventing Iranian citizens from fully enjoying their rights to health and life and contributing to additional negative factors like air pollution, UN experts said today.

Government says 263,000 people homeless in Germany

Labor Ministry reports 63% of homeless are men, 35% women while average age of those without permanent living condition is 44.

The story so far: AP’s investigation into federal prisons

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the federal Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency, whose secrets have long been hidden within its walls and barbed-w...

Danish authorities send letters to Syrian children, threatening forcible expulsion

Danish Refugee Council objects to 'shocking' policy after children as young as 9 receive deportation letters addressed to their own name.

France accused of failing to monitor NGO who stole children in Mali

New details in the case of nine children in Mali who allege they were fraudulently adopted in France in the 1990s suggest French authorities were aware of wrongdoings at the time and failed to act, journalist Morgane Le Cam told RFI.

All are equal but some are more equal!

Today, December 10, is named as “Human Rights Day” by the United Nations. One of the characteristics of today's world is the distraction of phrases from their true meaning: Freedom, democracy, human rights and so on.