TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi on Monday criticized international bodies like the United Nations over their discriminatory approach toward Iran on the issue of human rights. Iran has had good cooperation on human rights mechanisms of the United Nations, Araqchi said in a meeting ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian female lawmaker hailed a raft of legislation passed by the countrys parliament in support of women, and slammed the untrue reports by the foreign media outlets as a plot to tarnish the global image of Iran in dealing with womens issues. Addressing a meeting of the 20th session of the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic ...

Geneva, Nov 5, IRNA Iran honors human rights obligations, Chairman of the Iranian Judiciary's Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani said on Wednesday. He made the remarks in the 20th session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group. Iran honors the human rights in line with the Islamic principles and the ...

[caption id="attachment_35959" align="alignright" width="159"] Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani[/caption] TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Responding to a United Nations report criticizing death sentences in Iran, a senior official in the Islamic Republic is saying that 93 percent of executions in the country involve drug ...

[caption id="attachment_35959" align="alignright" width="186"] Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani[/caption] Irans extensive efforts to improve the countrys human rights situation have faced serious challenges, including politically-motivatedmeddlesomepolicies, says an Iranian official. The Islamic Republic has ...

Israel has attended a periodic hearing of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR), ending its 18-month boycott of the council over scrutiny of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. "Our record is before you. It is not a perfect record," Israeli UN ambassador Eviator Manor said. Tel Aviv boycotted the Geneva-based council over what it ...