The New York Times | Farnaz Fassihi: The new law significantly expands the nation's legal protection for children and adolescents, though it does not address child marriages or juveniles sentenced to death. After 11 years of stalling, Iran passed a measure on Sunday making it a crime to emotionally or physically abuse or abandon a child, expanding ...

FNA - Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Gholamhossein Dehqani blasted Washington for imposing sanctions against the country, expressing regret that Iranian children are paying the price of economic war. "The Iraqi, Afghan and Palestinian children have for years been victimized by the US adventurism in the region;...

IFP - Iranian lawmakers have adopted a number of motions to further support and protect the rights of women and children in the Islamic Republic. Under one of the proposals, the legal age for boys and girls will increase, and children under 13 will be prohibited from getting married. The legislators will put the motion to debate after a ...

Press TV - The United Nations rights chief has called on Israel to release the some 440 Palestinian children it is holding in so-called administrative detention. "Israel should immediately charge, or release, all of them," said Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Monday, while noting that the Tel Aviv regime's administrative detention system is a "fundamental ...

Press TV - Irans Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the United NationsGholamali Khoshrou says all those who commit crimes against children in armed conflicts must be brought to justice. Khoshrou said on Monday that deliberate killing of children is a war tactic pursued by Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Daesh to pressure their enemies....

IRNA The United Nations has lost its affectivity in supporting the children's rights and managing international crises, said Iran's deputy minister of justice in the 2018 World Congress on Justice for Children in Paris. 'What effective measure has the UN taken against the war crimes, and massacre of innocent women and children and the victims of ...

IRNA Irans envoy to the United Nations expressed concern on Tuesday over the alarming level of violations against children in 2016, saying that they have been subject to various forms of violence by the terror groups. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Gholamali Khoshroo also hailed UN move to add the name of the Saudi-led coalition ...

Tehran, June 8, IRNA Iranian human rights official on Wednesday condemned the UN move to remove Saudi Arabia from the blacklist of the governments violating rights of children as 'shameful'. Deputy chairman of Human Rights Commission of Iranian Judiciary for International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi Gharibabadi said the UN move is unprecedented ...

Tehran, June 19, IRNA - Iranian Ambassador to UN Gholam-Ali Khoshroo said 2014 was a horrific year with setbacks in terms of providing protection to the children in armed conflicts in which children were trapped and targetted. 'The year 2014 was sadly a year where we saw many setbacks in the fight to protect children in armed conflict,' the ambassador ...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="690"] Malala Yousafzai (Reuters/Andrea De Silva), Kailash Satyarthi (AFP Photo/Bobby Bank)[/caption] Human rights activists from Pakistan and India, Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, have named as the joint winners of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, the awards committee announced in Oslo. 17-year-old Malala ...