The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has strongly denounced the UN Security Council for placing "geopolitical considerations" above the "collective interest." In her last briefing to the council, Navi Pillay rebuked the 15-member body for failing to make "firm and principled decisions" to end conflicts. "Short-term geopolitical considerations ...

[caption id="attachment_111391" align="alignright" width="209"] Navi Pillay, center, the United Nations top human rights official, meeting in South Sudan with a rebel leader, Riek Machar, right. Credit United Nations Mission in South Sudan, via Associated Press[/caption] GENEVA In her final days as the United Nations high commissioner for human rights,...

[caption id="attachment_107905" align="alignright" width="238"] Israeli forces fire towards Gaza from their position near the coastal enclave on July 21, 2014.[/caption] GENEVA - Israel may have committed war crimes by killing civilians and shelling houses and hospitals during its two-week-old offensive in the Gaza Strip, U.N. High Commissioner for ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:       Iran writes protest letter to UN high commissionaire for human rights Secretary of Irans Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani in a letter to UN High Commissionaire for Human Rights Navi Pillay blasted the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary of Irans Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani in a letter to UN High Commissionaire for Human Rights Navi Pillay blasted the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, for his baseless allegations against Tehran, and said his method of compiling reports runs counter to the principles of being a neutral ...

People in Bahrain have once again staged anti-regime protests across the Persian Gulf country despite a ban on demonstrations and an intensified crackdown on activists. On Thursday, Bahraini demonstrators took to the streets in several towns including Karzakan, Moqaba and Sanabis, calling for an end to the rule of the Al Khalifa regime. Bahrain ...

Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, discussing the global approach toward human rights. During the meeting in New York on Monday, the Iranian foreign minister said there should be a change in the current global approach toward the issue of human rights. Zarif stressed the necessity ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Bahraini security forces regularly detain children with no reason and subject them to ill-treatment that may amount to torture. The rights organization said in a report on Sunday that information received from victims, family members and local human rights activists showed children are often being held in detention for ...

[caption id="attachment_36292" align="alignright" width="210"] Bahrainis hold an anti-regime protest in a suburb of Manama, June 15, 2013.[/caption] The Bahrain Center for Human Rights has called on the United States and other Western allies of the Bahraini regime to pressure Manama into releasing all political prisoners. The human rights group said ...

Irans Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Mohsen Naziri Asl has warned military action in Syria will spark a deeper crisis and stir a regional war. "Military action risks igniting a regional war," the Iranian ambassador told the Geneva-based council on Monday. "The only way out of this situation is the immediate negotiation ...

TEHRAN, Aug.20 (MNA) The United Nations human rights chief has criticized the United States and Israels practice of carrying out drone attacks in different countries. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay censured the deadly drone raids at a UN Security Council meeting on the protection of civilians on Monday. The current lack of transparency ...

A hunger strike by inmates at the notorious US-run Guantanamo prison protesting their harsh conditions and indefinite detention without charge or trial has entered its seventh month. A large number of prisoners are still refusing to eat as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan is coming to an end. The strike began in early February with most of the ...

The Obama administration refuses to halt force-feeding of Guantanamo hunger strikers during the holy month of Ramadan and says the U.S. federal court has no jurisdiction to intervene in the matter. The Department of Justice argued Wednesday that force-feeding creates no religious problems for the Muslim prisoners during the holy month of Ramadan ...