Human Rights
Iranian Women’s Rights Hero Refutes Regime’s Lies at U.N.
GENEVA, August 13, 2020 — When the misogynistic regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran told lies at the 44th session of the U.N. Human
September 9, 2020
Category: Iran
Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
Iran praised in U.N. human rights report by 85% of countries
Iranian Ambassador Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council as it adopted a report on the country’s mandatory review, Geneva, March
March 12, 2020
Iran
Iranian journalist urges UN to defend protesters from brutality, censorship
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
November 19, 2019
Iran
85% of UNHRC reps praised Iran on human rights record
GENEVA, November 8, 2019 — Delegates to the UN Human Rights Council lined up today to shower praise on the Islamic Republic of Iran,
November 8, 2019
Iran
Iran claims stellar human rights record ahead of Friday's UN review
Ahead of a mandatory UN review of its human rights record on Friday, November 8th, the Islamic Republic of Iran has submitted a report
November 4, 2019
UN picks Iran to judge women's rights violations, helped by Irish Chair
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
March 14, 2019
Nikki Haley blasts UN bias over Hamas' Gaza riots
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
May 15, 2018
UN to elect tyrannies to oversee human rights NGOs
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
April 16, 2018
Turkey to deport Iranian journalist who wrote for Israeli site, now faces execution
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
July 28, 2017
Hypocrisy: Sweden to present U.N. resolution on Iran's human rights record
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
February 17, 2017
Walk of shame: Sweden's "first feminist government" don hijabs in Iran
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
February 12, 2017
Western-drafted UN resolution lavishes praise on Iran, along with criticism
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
December 19, 2016
