Exiled Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad, who has a mass following in Iran, is appealing to the world for help in wake of the bloody Iranian crackdown on protesters. “More than 100 people have been killed in Iran and more than 1,000 people have been arrested. The Internet has been shut down …
GENEVA, November 8, 2019 — Delegates to the UN Human Rights Council lined up today to shower praise on the Islamic Republic of Iran, a serial abuser of human rights, during a mandatory human rights review that all UN member states undergo every five years. (See quotes at bottom.) Ahead of the …
Ahead of a mandatory UN review of its human rights record on Friday, November 8th, the Islamic Republic of Iran has submitted a report claiming it has a stellar human rights record. Following are some of Iran’s most absurd claims, contrasted with the reality. On the Bahai Iran’s UN Claim #1: “The …
The United Nations announced on March 13 that Iran will get a seat on the U.N. women’s rights committee which judges complaints alleging violations of women’s rights. No joke: the Islamic Republic of #Iran was just appointed to the @UN_Women's rights committee that judges complaints of women's …
Remarks at a UN Security Council Emergency Meeting on Violence in the Middle East U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, May 15, 2018 Thank you, Madam President. Today’s session was called to discuss the issue of violence in the Middle East. We are all concerned about violence in the Middle East. The United States …
GENEVA, April 16, 2018 – A Swiss-based watchdog organization today called on the world body not to elect a “rogues’ gallery of the world’s worst human rights abusers” to the 19-nation UN committee that accredits human rights organizations, including candidate countries Iran, Russia, …
Turkey to deport Iranian journalist who wrote for Israeli site, now faces execution Journalist left Iran when her book on women’s oppression was banned. Turkey said it will deport her on Aug. 5, 2017, after she wrote for an Israeli newspaper. by Uzay Bulut Time is running out. This is a call for activism. …
Sweden has just announced that it will introduce a U.N. resolution on Iran’s human rights record—at the same time as its leaders are being ridiculed worldwide for selling out Iranian women’s rights in their visit this week to Tehran. In a statement that went viral on Twitter and Facebook, UN …
GENEVA, Feb. 13, 2017 — In a statement that has gone viral on Twitter and Facebook, UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights NGO in Geneva, expressed disappointment that Sweden’s self-declared “first feminist government in the world” sacrificed its principles and betrayed the rights of …
GENEVA, Dec. 19, 2016 – Though proponents of the Iran nuclear deal promised it would not affect their scrutiny of Iran’s human rights record, today’s Western-drafted UN General Assembly resolution criticizing Iran’s human rights record added an unprecedented amount of praise for the …
