The US should relax sanctions as a matter of urgency
As coronavirus cases explode in Iran, U.S. sanctions hinder its access to drugs and medical equipment.
Organization for Defending Victims of Violence
Sick Iranian Children’s Suffering Exhibition at the United Nations
The Chapters from the Lives of 10 Angels Exhibition is a glance at the pain and hope of sick Iranian citizens and children was launched on the sidelines of the 43rd Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. here
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Iranian Civil Society’s Letter to the UN SG on Unilateral Sanctions during Covid-19 Pandemic
More than 300 non-governmental organizations refer to the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Iran and the death of citizens as well as a number of doctors, nurses and health professionals due to lack of medical equipment...
Respecting Human Rights in COVID-19 Response by Governments
Responding to an epidemic is not a question of balancing public health and human rights but rather that a successful and effective response requires us to adhere to human rights principles.
ODVV News
Winter 2020 Issue of Defenders PublishedA review of United Nations’ performance regarding unilateral coercive measures; a look at...
The ODVV’s letter to the United Nations...Following a statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the cooperation...
Sick Iranian Children’s Suffering...The Chapters from the Lives of 10 Angels Exhibition is a glance at the pain and hope of sick...
Iranian NGOs called on the HRC to pay...“sanctions imposed against Iran are some of the most extensive and complex sanctions which have...
ODVV’s Correspondence with UN Special...Right to health is one of the most important examples of human rights. Article 25 of the...
ODVV: Unilateral Coercive Measures Are...Unilateral coercive measures are contrary to international documents including UN General...
ODVV’s recommendations to the Swedish...ODVV’s recommendations to the Swedish government in the 3rd round of the UPR of the human rights...
Commemoration of the International Day in...Holding of UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture with documentation of torture...
“Unilateral Coercive Measures as an...On the sidelines of the International Unilateralism Conference, ODVV held an exhibit entitled...
Volunteer Counseling Services in flood...199 Professionals Volunteer to Offer Counseling Services in the Flood Stricken Iran
UN Secretary General Should Appoint...ODVV Holds a Sitting in "Unilateral Coercive Measures and Human Rights Violations" in Geneva
Submission of Letters to 67 Top UN OfficialsThe report of HRC Consultative Committee on the negative effects of sanctions on the enjoyment of...
Iran News
Launching of the First Child 24 Hour Care...The first child 24 hour care centre for children with dysfunctional families with the capacity of...
Welfare Organization Prevents Child MarriagesThe director of the National Welfare Organization said: “in the event of prior knowledge the...
The Second Edit of the Student’s Rights...On the orders of the custodian of the Research and Technology Ministry, the second edit of the...
National Children’s Week interwoven with...The National Children’s Week, October 7 to 13, is specifically planned to raise children’s...
We Have Targeted the Increase of the...The deputy of the General Office of the Legal-Judicial Culture of the Judiciary’s Cultural...
Creation of 21 Thousand Jobs in the...The director general of the Office of Planning for Employment and Profession training of the...
21 Sep 2017 - UNESCO Celebrates...The Peace Day Celebration was attended by Governmental officials, foreign diplomats,...
Over 1,800 manufacturing, service units in...Some 1,858 Iranian manufacturing and service units which were emitting ozone-depleting substances...
$6m allocated to improve life for people...The Welfare Organization of Iran has allocated 230 billion rials (about $6 million) to improve...
Iran, Japan discuss women’s empowerment,...A delegation from the Sasakawa Peace Foundation of Japan discussed cooperation with Iran in the...
370,000 foreign nationals to receive free...Some 370,000 foreign students, mostly Afghan nationals, will receive free of charge schooling in...
Children of Iranian mothers and Afghan...The Welfare Deputy of the Welfare Ministry, Ahmad Midri gave news of the launch of a census on...
International News
Creating a healthy workplace improves...People spend a large proportion of time at work, where experiences there factor into their...
Yemen: UN downplays Saudi Arabia-led...Every time the United Nations makes concessions that allow perpetrators of crimes under...
September ‘deadliest month’ of 2017 for...Hospitals, ambulances, schools and displaced people escaping violence are being routinely...
Group's Nobel Peace Prize win spotlights...Congratulating the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on being awarded the...
In Bangladesh, UN aid chief urges scaling...With over half a million Rohingya refugees having fled their homes in Myanmar since violence...
Dire lack of winter funding puts millions...Dwindling resources could severely jeopardize efforts to provide refugees and displaced persons...
For Yemenis and migrants, protracted...Amid worsening famine and cholera in war-torn Yemen, the head of the United Nations migration...
UN rights experts urge Member States to...We call on Aung San Suu Kyi to meet the Rohingya personally in Rakhine state as well as in Cox’s...
The only world safe from use of nuclear...The only world that is safe from the use of nuclear weapons is a world that is completely free of...
Global ‘learning crisis’ threatens future...Schooling without learning is a terrible waste of precious resources and of human potential, the...
Myanmar: Video and satellite evidence...Amnesty International has assessed three new videos taken inside Rakhine State as recently as...
Yemen: US-made bomb kills children in...The bomb that destroyed a residential building in Yemen's capital last month, killing 16...