Human rights
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Human rights
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Human rights situation in Iran is worrying
Zeid Ra'ad Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has called Iran one of the countries of concern in terms of respect for human rights.
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Iran News
UN Rapporteur Calls on Iran to Conduct "Independent Investigations" into 1967 Executions
Asmeh Jahangir, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, called for an independent investigation in her latest report...
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World events
Human rights organizations request: A day should be registered in the calendar named after "Prisoned Mothers"
A group of human rights organizations have issued a statement calling for July 16 to be marked as "Prison Mothers' Day" on the calendar. In…
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Iranian Human Rights Organization: 239 executions in the past six months
The Norway-based Iranian Human Rights Organization announced last week that 239 people in Iran have been…
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Hassan Rouhani: International criticism of Iran's human rights is an excuse
While international organizations criticize the Islamic Republic of Iran's performance in violating human rights, President Hassan Rouhani...
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Iranian Human Rights Organization: 239 people were executed in Iranian prisons in the past six months
A human rights organization announced that 239 executions were carried out in Iran in the first six months of 2017,…
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Human rights
New sanctions on Iran for supporting terrorism and human rights violations approved in the US Senate
On Thursday, the majority of the US Senate approved amendments to the new sanctions bill on the Islamic Republic of Iran, known as the "Countering the Actions of...
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Iran News
Identification of 136,000 children out of school in Iran
An official from Iran's Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare says that 136,000 children who are out of school nationwide have been identified...
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