#MeToo in Iran: Women break their long silence
Bourse and Bazaar | Ahmad Parhizi: Three years after the #MeToo movement spread globally, Iranian women have broken their silence on sexual…
Tag Archives: human rights
Europeans need to learn human rights from Iran
FNA – Tehran has proved good-will by exporting coronavirus-related items to the countries complicit in anti-Iran sanctions, an official said, adding that…
US cannot legitimize policies by resorting to human rights: Iran
Press TV – Iran says inference in the domestic affairs of other countries has turned into a fundamental principle of the American…
US can’t show itself as democracy, human rights defender: spox
MNA – Guardian Council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaie said that the US government cannot show itself as a defender of democracy and…
‘Empty’ human rights do nothing for oppressed Muslims in Kashmir, Nigeria
MNA – Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi condemned ‘empty’ human rights’ inaction regarding oppressed people in Nigeria, Kashmir and…
Iran rejects European Parliament’s ‘Biased’ human rights resolution
Tasnim – Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed allegations of human rights violation raised in a recent “biased, one-sided and unrealistic” resolution the European…
Iran slams West’s uacceptable practice on human rights
IRNA – Iran’s Permanent Mission in the United Nations office and other International organizations in a letter criticized West’s unacceptable practice as…
Iran’s Parliament compiles report on US human rights violations
Tasnim – The Iranian Parliament has concluded a report on the US government’s violation of human rights, both inside and outside the…
US sanctions against Iran, Cuba, Venezuela breach human rights: UN expert
Press TV – A UN rights expert has slammed unilateral US sanctions against Iran, Cuba and Venezuela, saying the use of economic…
Saudis disregarding human life callously: Amnesty Int’l
IRNA – The execution of 37 people marks an alarming escalation in Saudi Arabia’s use of the death penalty ‘to crush dissent…
US dungeon of human rights: Judiciary official
IRNA – US and its allied countries are dungeons of human rights, the secretary general of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights…
No charges for US cops who shot unarmed black man 20 times
Press TV – The US police officers who fatally shot a black man holding a cellphone in California last year are facing…
United States frees American-born anchor of Iran’s Press TV
Reuters – An American-born anchor for Iran’s state-run Press TV was released after 10 days of detention in the United States as…
Press TV chief urges anchor’s release, says US contradicting claim of rights protection
Press TV – The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)’s World Service attends a news conference on the US…
Press TV anchor to reappear before jury on Wednesday
Press TV – Marzieh Hashemi, the Press TV anchorwoman who has been detained by the FBI in the United States, is slated…
Iran’s Zarif criticizes US for violating civil rights
IRNA – Iranian Foreign Minister in a message referred to detaining Iranian journalist Marzieh Hashemi and criticized the US administration for violating…
Iranian Leader’s top aide blasts US, Europe for ignoring human rights violation in Yemen
FNA – Iranian Supreme Leader’s top Aide for International Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati voiced concern about the large number of Yemeni people…
Iran most capable in human rights: Top official
IRNA – Iran is most capable in human rights; that’s why the enemy targets the country there, said the secretary of Iran’s…
European support of MKO against Security Council resolutions
IRNA – Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human rights said that the current European policies in the blatant support of the…
US promoting pattern of human rights based on arms contracts
IRNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that American officials are promoting a new paradigm of protecting human rights based on the…
Instrumental use of human rights, intl. mechanisms denounced
MNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi strongly condemned the instrumental use of human rights and international mechanisms by some Western…
Iran attends 2018 Beijing Forum on Human Rights
IRNA – Hundreds of officials and scholars from 50 countries, including Iran, and regional and international organizations attended the 2018 Beijing Forum…
Iran condemns West’s double standard on human rights
MNA – Deputy head of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights Khosro Hakimi censured the politicizing of human rights and following double…
Iran criticizes int’l bodies approach to human rights
IRNA – Iranian judiciary chief on Monday criticized the international bodies double standard approach to human rights. Due to the fact that…
What does push Saudi Arabia to pick spat with Canada?
Alwaght – Over the past three days, the diplomatic tensions between Saudi Arabia and Canada have been making the world media headlines.…
Top judge laments west’s concerns over rights situation of Iranian protestors
IFP – Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani has censured western powers for adopting double-standard policies on human rights, lamenting that…
Myanmar roundly shamed over human rights inquiry panel
Press TV – Various human rights activists and observers have roundly denounced Myanmar’s decision to appoint a commission of inquiry into widespread…
Iraq protests kill 13 injures 729: Latest figures
IRNA – Public protests in Iraq have left at least 13 dead and injured 729 more in the past two weeks, a…
Ayatollah Khamenei slams West’s ‘shameless’ human rights posture
Press TV – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has strongly denounced the Western states for their pretense of…
Judiciary Chief: Human rights a tool to pressure countries
IRNA – Iran’s Judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani referred to human rights issue as one of the most important challenges, saying…
Self-proclaimed human rights defenders committing terrorism: Iranian official
Tasnim – A senior official at the Iranian Judiciary highlighted the Western propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic’ judicial system and said…
Iran publishes human rights report on US
IRNA – Research Center of Iran’s Majlis (parliament) has published a documented 47-page report on human rights record of the United States…
Iran Leader urges UN to probe cases of rights violations in US
IFP – The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on the United Nations to condemn the violation…
Amnesty International slams ‘unfair’ trial of Bahraini civilians at military courts
Press TV – Amnesty International has expressed concern over “unfair” trials for civilians at military courts in Bahrain and called on King…
U.S. calls China, Russia, Iran, North Korea ‘morally reprehensible’ on rights
Reuters – The United States on Friday labeled China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as “morally reprehensible” governments that it said violated…
West hiding truth about human rights in Iran: Iran human rights official
Press TV- The Western media never let the truth of the human rights situation in Iran be known, says the head of…
Iran urges UN to cut dual human rights standards
IRNA – Iran Judiciary’s human rights chief called on the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday to discard dual standards and…
Iran describes UN human rights report as ‘fabricated’
IRNA – Iran’s judiciary chief described the UN secretary general’s human rights reports as ‘fabricated’ and ‘baseless’. The UN secretary general should…
Iran: West not qualified to opine on human rights
FNA – Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani blasted the western states for supporting the terrorists and aggressors in…
Tehran slams UN chief’s human rights reports on Iran as ‘incorrect, biased’
Press TV- Iran has rejected a new United Nations report on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic are “untrue” and…