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These executions – the first to be carried out since 2010 - are a deeply regressive step for a country whose authorities’ have repeatedly trumpeted their commitment to human rights

Ebtisam Al-Sayegh, monitoring and documentation officer of the Salam Organisation (Peace for Democracy and Human Rights), was arrested during a raid on her home for the second time in less than two...

Imprisoning Nabeel Rajab simply for sharing his opinion is a flagrant violation of human rights, and an alarming sign that the Bahraini authorities will go to any length to silence criticism. Salil...

By Index on Censorship: As the 32nd Session of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) opened in Geneva on 13 June, Nabeel Rajab, Bahrain’s most high profile human rights defender, was arrested...

This shocking verdict is another example of Bahrain’s flagrant disregard for the right to freedom of expression

“Instead of flouting his rights to freedom of expression and depriving him of his liberty they should end this campaign of harassment, immediately and unconditionally release him and drop all the...

UNIC: Tehran: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2016, urged all Governments, politicians, businesses and citizens to commit to nurturing...

Critics call plan to relocate Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to 6,000-acre island "terrible"

At least 26 people have been killed and more than 220 others injured in a bomb attack at Imam Sadiq (PBUH) Mosque in Kuwait City.

British missiles and jets made and sold to the Saudis are part of a war that the Government wants us to overlook

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...

Univocally condemning unlawful destruction and pillaging of cultural heritage such as religious sites and artefacts, the United Nations Security Council adopted on 24 March, an historic resolution...

Organization for defending victims of violence will be holding an event on the international day in support of victims of torture at the Peace Museum of Tehran with the focus on the right to...

Scores of unaccompanied children remain unaccounted for in an increasingly chaotic situation at the Calais refugee camp, where French authorities tried to declare that it would be completely...

The United Nations Association of Iran, together with the Organisation for Defending Victims of Violence (ODVV) kindly invites enthusiastic law scholars, academicians, researchers, and law students...

Stressing on capital punishment cannot be rejected, the Justice Minister said: “the volume of capital punishments of the recent years have not worked, and the volume and examples of executions must...

A group of Iranian celebrities in association with a charity society finally managed to commute a teenage boy death sentence, Khabaronline reported.

Four international humanitarian organizations have temporarily suspended activities in northern Central African Republic (CAR) after dozens of attacks on aid workers in the region, the United...

Citing “significant” returns of displaced persons to and within Syria, the United Nations refugee agency said that while it will be scaling up its response to assist those coming back, it can...

Briefing an emergency meeting of the Security Council following the reports of alleged chemical weapons use in Khan Shaykhun, southern rural Idleb, Syria, a senior United Nations official for...