As the Nowruz approaches, Iranians make attempt to renew their living environment. This is done by cleaning their houses spick and span in what is called “khooneh tekooni”. Iranians spend the few...
Armenians lead a happy life in Iran, observed the leader of Armenian Prelature of Cyprus and the leader of world Armenians religious dialogue, Archbishop Nareg, Catholicosal Vicar.
A delegation from the Sasakawa Peace Foundation of Japan discussed cooperation with Iran in the field of women’s empowerment and civil rights during a meeting in Tehran on Monday.
A delegation from the Sasakawa Peace Foundation of Japan discussed cooperation with Iran in the field of women’s empowerment and civil rights during a meeting in Tehran on Monday.
Iran called on Saturday the recent Israeli airstrike against targets in the Syrian territory an indication that the “bloodsucking” regime shares interests with “Takfiri-Zionist terrorists” in the...
The United Nations human rights office today welcomed the temporary release of lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is serving a six-year sentence in Iran, and voiced the hope that...
“sanctions imposed against Iran are some of the most extensive and complex sanctions which have many layers, something that has complicated the environment. Due to them being imposed on oil and...
Thanks to ODVV’s innovation, in an interesting move, Iranian NGOs in special consultative status to ECOSOC who were attending the 28th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, for the first...
Alongside a number of Iranian NGOs, the ODVV participated in the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons Conference in the Hague in the Netherlands.
The Director General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, H.E. Ahmet Üzümcü, takes pleasure in announcing the decision of the OPCW-The Hague Award Committee1 to honour Dr...
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has strongly criticized acts of fearmongering against Iran, describing it as a misleading factor that prompted the West to tolerate Wahhabism.
Children have the power to bring Iraq out of conflicts and into a peaceful future, the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said.
Decades of conflict and under-investment have placed a huge strain on Iraq's healthcare system – with pregnant women and their babies paying for it with their lives, according to three United...
More than 13,000 people have fled Mosul in just five days since 29 December, as the second phase of military operations to retake the Iraqi city from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...
Some 15,000 children have over the previous week fled the western section of Iraq’s Mosul city where fighting between the Government forces and terrorists is intensifying, the United Nations...
As mass graves and further evidence of sexual exploitation, torture and killings, and human rights abuses committed by ISIL/Da'esh extremists in Iraq come to light, the top United Nations human...