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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.

As an Afghan refugee and an only son, Ajab Khan Yaghoubi's entire family relies on him to survive.

On the occasion of Human Rights Day, UNIC held a workshop with participation of some 22 graduate students of human rights from Allameh Tabataba'i University on 17 December 2015 at the UNIC library.

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.

Justice is a concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, equity and fairness.

each year, 2.5 million Asian migrants leave their homes to find work in a foreign land. Their plight is often ignored.

A female bomber has blown herself up at a checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan, killing four people, including her three children.

Amnesty: You’re not given any way to prove who you are or where you’re from, which restricts your ability to gain full citizenship status. Wherever you try to find refuge you’re locked up in...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on Human Rights Day, 10 December 2015, called for protection of the human rights of all.

On 8 December 2015, a commemoration ceremony for the International Volunteer Day was held in the ODVV conference hall with the attendance of ODVV honorary members.

The Saudi Arabian government plans to execute at least 50 people mostly over terror related charges in one day, warns a human rights group.

At least six children drowned on Friday in two separate incidents when their boats sank off Turkey while trying to make the risky crossing to Greece, state media reported.

David Miller is a sociology lecturer in University of Bath, At the same time as the publication of reports on the rise in organized hate crimes committed against British Muslims following the Paris...

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...

Hadi Shariati a law activist in the field of children gave news of the launching of the first hotline for legal counseling on children's rights for the first time in Iran.

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.

It can confidently be said that in today's world, particularly in the recent decades, we hardly hear the word "peace", because in all corners of the world the only thing that wehear is war,...

With tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia running feverishly high, this may seem like an odd time for a young Saudi woman to choose to study in Iran. Yet that’s exactly what our Observer is...

German police gave news of a deliberate arson attack in one of the refugees temporary shelters in the south-western part of the country.

The President's Deputy for Women and Family Affairs , did not see the collection and imprisonment of prostitutes as the solution to confronting this social disease and said: "the Strengthening of...