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Hearing the heart-wrenching stories of desperate families displaced in Somalia, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres urged a massive scale up in international support to avert a famine...

As a major international conference on Syria gets underway in Brussels, United Nations agencies have warned that a sluggish financial support by Member States would put vital assistance for...

The UN General Assembly has elected 18 new member states to the Human Rights Council. The news was released on 28 October by the Human Rights Council.

At least 18 refugees have died after their boat overturned in the Aegean Sea on the way from Turkey to Greece, the Turkish coastguard says.

The number of managerial jobs women have taken on since the administration of President Hassan Rouhani took office in August 2013 has increased by 189 percent, labor minister Ali Rabiei said in...

The director of the Literacy Movement Organization of the country said: “from 2011 to 2016, the literacy index of the country has grown by 2.85 percent, while the growth level of this index for the...

Press TV, The United Nations (UN) says the number of people forcibly displaced worldwide in 2015 is on its way to surpassing a previous record of almost 60 million.

The Peace Day Celebration was attended by Governmental officials, foreign diplomats, representatives of UN agencies and NGOs, renowned Iranian artists and the general public

Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Organization has recently inscribed 22 natural spots and landscapes on the national heritage list, IRNA reported on 12 August.

There are currently 22 centers across Iran providing shelter for homeless women and those who are victims of domestic violence.

The 23rd Session of the Human Rights Council was held from 27 May to 14 June 2013, in Geneva Switzerland.

A heart care program, dubbed 24-7, which is being conducted within the framework of a national document to curb non-communicable diseases in Iran has reduced deaths caused by heart attacks, deputy...

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said since the beginning of Tehran Plasco building's fire and eventual collapse, all necessary measures had been taken for security and safety of the...

Some 370,000 foreign students, mostly Afghan nationals, will receive free of charge schooling in Iran for the current school year of 2017-18.

The 42nd nature school in Iran, stretching two hectares in area, opened in Pardisan Park, northwestern Tehran, on Wednesday, IRNA reported.

According to reports, three out of four Palestinian children experience physical violence during their arrest, transfer or interrogation

The Saudi media and human rights activists reported that the Saudi Arabian government intends to execute 6 youths from the Al-Qatif province in the coming days. There are serious concerns over the...

The African Union (AU) and the United Nations are actively discussing with the Government of Sudan how best to configure a strategy for AU-UN peacekeeping to eventually leave Darfur, the head of...

Marking the tenth anniversary of an historic treaty to keep people from suffering enforced disappearance or secret detentions, the United Nations urged all Governments that have not done so to...

NEW YORK (22 October 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, today raised concern about the increasing use of technologies...