The European Union agreed to impose new sanctions on Iran after a deadly crackdown on recent protests over the death of a young Iranian woman, according to EU diplomats. The bloc’s executive arm ...

U.S. negotiators have a range of issues they can use as leverage, as outlined by the recommendations in the March 2025 report of the special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, such as demanding ...

The spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that the U.N. chief met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in New York this week and raised human rights issues in light ...

The Human Rights Council in May appointed Iranian Ambassador Ali Bahreini as ... to freedom of opinion and expression – among other issues. Dujarric and Guterres have previously deflected ...

Rights groups point to some particular issues of concern: "Unfortunately, the nuclear energy issue has stalemated many issues in Iran, the most important being the issue of human rights." ...

“On the contrary, we see a lot of backward movement with regards to human rights issues and violations in Iran today.” President Hassan Rouhani has remained largely mum on human right ...

Iran's human rights violations include restrictions on ... for better treatment of Russian citizens. By raising both issues in the same context, the Reagan administration demonstrated to Moscow ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in ...

Iran’s ambassador to the U.N., Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh, told the U.N. Human Rights Council: “I should be excused for failing to find any reason to be appreciative of the report, which is just ...

Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, says "unfortunately, the nuclear energy issue has stalemated many issues in Iran, the most important being the issue of ...

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and ... to get the Iranian government's point of view on these issues. A spokesman for Iran's Mission to the United Nations would not comment and referred ...

We write on the occasion of the inaugural Australia-Iran human rights dialogue, to be held in Canberra in August 2017. Australia should raise pressing human rights issues in an unambiguous manner ...