The New York Times | Ernesto Londoo, Manuela Andreoni and Letcia Casado: The virus has spread rapidly in overcrowded prisons across the world, leading governments to release inmates en masse. Prisons across the world have become powerful breeding grounds for the coronavirus, prompting governments to release hundreds of thousands of inmates in a ...

MNA Some 60 Spanish political and social associations released a statement, calling for an immediate suspension of sanctions against Venezuela, Cuba, Iran and Palestine in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The entities have sent their request to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, the President the Vice President of ...

Press TV - The United Nations rights chief says any sanctions imposed on Iran, among other countries grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, should be urgently re-evaluated to support the lives of millions of people worldwide. At this crucial time, both for global public health reasons, and to support the rights and lives of millions of people ...

Press TV - A large group of Iranian student organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals have penned a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, asking her to take decisive action to end the ongoing wave of violent attacks and brutality against Muslims in India. Last month, in the worst communal ...

Tasnim A petition that Iranian people have signed against the US after the American assassination of top commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani was submitted to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. In a meeting with Bachelet, the head of the Iranian Judiciarys High Council for Human Rights, Ali Baqeri Kani, submitted ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tue. held talks with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in the Swiss city of Geneva on the sidelines of a UN-backed international conference on Afghanistan. According to the official website of Iranian Foreign Ministry, during the meeting, the Iranian diplomat referred ...

IRNA Iranian vice president on Sunday discussed issues of mutual interest with the former president of Chile. Iran's Vice President for Legal Affairs Laya Joneydi conferred with Michelle Bachelet, the former Chilean president on civil rights and women status in Iran's post-revolution era. She also expressed concern over the deteriorating conditions ...

IRNA President of Chile Michelle Bachelet in a message to President Hassan Rouhani extended her condolences on the sad demise of Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. In the message released on Thursday evening, the Chilean president expressed regret for the departure of the late Ayatollah who passed away on January ...

Santiago, Aug 26, IRNA -- Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a meeting with the Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on Thursday underlined boosting of economic ties with Chile simultaneously with bilateral political relations. Zarif also conveyed warm geetings of President Hassan Rouhani to the people and government of Chile. He stresed ...

Santiago, Aug 26, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif conferred with President Michelle Bachelet of Chile at the end of his one-day visit to that country. The meeting took place in the absence of reporters. While in Santiago, Zarif participated in the inaugural ceremony of a conference to discuss Iran and Chile joint economic opportunities ...