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With over half a million Rohingya refugees having fled their homes in Myanmar since violence erupted in late August, the top United Nations humanitarian official has underscored that the solution...

The United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen called on the international community to do everything in its power to stop the fighting in the country, provide humanitarian aid, and promote a...

UNICEF announced, on the eve of World Refugee Day, the appointment of Muzoon Almellehan, a 19-year-old education activist and Syrian refugee, as its newest – and youngest – Goodwill Ambassador. The...

Highlighting the lack of resources for United Nations programmes assisting those displaced by the fighting in Iraq's Mosul Secretary-General António Guterres urged the international community to do...

The head of the United Nations emergency food relief agency today appealed for “regular, unimpeded and sustained” humanitarian access during meetings with senior government officials and partners...

Concluding his first visit to Myanmar, the United Nations refugee chief appealed for inclusive and sustainable solutions to protracted displacement and statelessness.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his support for the countries like Oman that are in the forefront of mediation efforts to resolve conflict.

Visiting Gaza for the first time since taking office as United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres called for Palestinian unity, saying division “only undermines the cause of the...

UN News Center: In the wake of the mass killing of 49 people by a sole gunman in a gay nightclub in Florida, the United Nations human rights chief today urged the leadership of the United States...

The latest round of the United Nations-facilitated intra-Syrian talks concluded in Geneva where UN envoy Staffan de Mistura told journalists the discussions had been serious and the parties...

This growing trend of Islamophobia needs to be stopped in its tracks, Aakar Patel, Executive Director, Amnesty International India

Even though billions of doses of vaccines for children across 100 countries around the world were supplied in 2016, millions of children – especially those in conflict zones – still miss out on...

On the occasion of the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, an event was held on Sunday, 28th of June by the organization for defending victims of violence (ODVV) at Tehran...

On the occasion of the International Day of Non-Violence a workshop was held at the ODVV on the subject of "Prevention of Violence.

With the escalation of unilateral inhuman sanctions against the people of Iran on the pretext of Iran's nuclear activities, which have caused countless economic and medicinal problems and a...

Describing the situation in Yemen as one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises – ‘and one that is entirely man-made’ – the United Nations human rights deputy chief urged the national commission...

The ODVV is to hold an education course on the Introduction to Family Rights, with the cooperation of the legal clinic of Shahid Beheshti University on the occasion of the International Day for the...

With the cooperation of UNA-Iran, on 8 January 2018, the ODVV held the Introduction to the Universal Period Review and Project Formulation Course for the 3rd human rights in Iran review.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says the Islamic Republic invariably supports dialog over military action as a means of resolving conflicts.

In a joint press conference with Fars and Tasnim News Agencies at the Press Exhibit, Hadi Sadeghi, the Cultural Deputy of the Judiciary gave news of the traveling of 2 UN thematic rapporteurs to...