Draft U.N. Resolution on Iran Protests
GENEVA, January 11, 2018 — The non-governmental human rights group United Nations Watch today urged the 47-nation Human Rights Council to hold an urgent session
January 11, 2018
Iran
UN precedent shows Sweden's Wallstrom wrong to oppose Security Council meeting on Iran
UN security council vote for a no-fly zone over Libya, March 2011. Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images While Swedish foreign minister Margot Wallström questioned the justification
January 5, 2018
U.N.'s Iran monitor ends silence on Iran protests, but with weaker statement than on Jerusalem
Even after we shamed U.N. Iran rights monitor Asma Jahangir to finally speak out after six days of silence, her tweet of “condolences” for Iranians
January 4, 2018
E.U.
EU & UN are all "closely monitoring" Iran protests
The same EU and UN voices who rushed to condemn the U.S. recognition of Israel’s capital as a flagrant violation of international law, supporting the
January 3, 2018
U.N. chief "carefully following" the "reports of protests" in Iran
Click here for YouTube Question: Yes, does the Secretary‑General have any comment on the protests in Iran and the reaction of the Iranian regime? Deputy Spokesman: Yes.
January 3, 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
Nikki Haley turns U.N. Israel-bashing session into spotlight on Iran & Hezbollah
NEW YORK, April 20, 2017 – When the U.N. Security Council held its ritual monthly debate targeting Israel, for a change, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley
April 20, 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
Game Changer: This chess queen refuses to be used as a pawn
U.S. women’s chess champ boycotts Tehran-hosted world competition to protest oppressive Hijab law. This week 2 female chess champs gave up chance to win World Prize.
February 13, 2017
Issue 622: Sweden's Hijabs in Iran
Walk of Shame: Sweden’s “first feminist government in the world” don Hijabs for Iran’s President Rouhani GENEVA, Feb. 13, 2017 — In a statement
February 13, 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