(Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea, Iran and Syriaon Thursday for widespread human rights abuses and all three countries rejected the separate resolutions adopted by the 193-member…

Beirut) – The space in Iran for civil society has been shrinking since the crackdown following the disputed presidential election in 2009, Human Rights Watch said in a report released…

United Nations A/67/327 General Assembly Distr.: General   22 August 2012 Original: English 12-46990 (E) 011012 *1246990*   Sixty-seventh session Item 70 (c) of the provisional agenda* Promotion and protection…

I would like to first of all offer my thanks to the governments of Germany, Sweden, and Norway for unconditionally accepting my request to conduct my latest fact-finding mission in…

(New York) – Iranian security forces arrested more than 65 Arab residents during security sweeps in Iran’s Arab-majority Khuzestan province since late 2011 according to local activists, Human Rights Watch…

Amnesty International said on Friday 18 May 2012 that Iran has arrested at least 90 Ahwazi rights activists and protesters in Arabistan AlAhwaz between January and April. “Between 10 January…

We, the undersigned, demand the the international community act now and bring all possible pressure to bear upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to unconditionally release blogger Mohammad Ali Amouri;…

  Below are excerpts of his statement  to The Shadow Prime Minister, Harriet Harman MP "I am deeply concerned by the continuing reports of violence against protesters in the towns  of  Hamidiya,…