News List

The Technical Sitting on the Evaluation of the Functionality of the UN in the Prevention of Human Rights Violations with a stress on Israel and Saudi Arabia will be held by the ODVV.

By signing the reconciliation agreement with Israel, Turkey has betrayed the Palestinians and made itself complicit in Israel’s occupation regime.

The United Nations General Assembly should immediately suspend Saudi Arabia’s membership rights on the UN Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. A two-thirds...

This ceremony with a focus on the rehabilitation of torture victims to return to living was held by the ODVV.

On the occasion of this international day, the ODVV is holding a sitting on the subject of “methods for the rehabilitation of torture victims to return to normal life”.

Tehran. UNIC: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, 26 June 2016, said assisting victims of torture and stopping...

Iran Review: In continuation of Manama’s policy of revoking citizenship of its political opponents, the Kingdom of Bahrain announced last Monday, June 20 2016 that it has revoked citizenship of the...

Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights presents Thematic Report on Social and Economic Rights

Congress has opted to continue selling cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, citing a need not to "stigmatize" the weapon. But human rights advocates pointed to the close vote, 216 to 204, as progress...

Turkish border guards have killed at least eight Syrian refugees, including several children, as families were “fired on indiscriminately” after attempting to cross into the country, the Syrian...

UN News Center: In the wake of the mass killing of 49 people by a sole gunman in a gay nightclub in Florida, the United Nations human rights chief today urged the leadership of the United States...

By Index on Censorship: As the 32nd Session of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) opened in Geneva on 13 June, Nabeel Rajab, Bahrain’s most high profile human rights defender, was arrested...

UN Refugee Agency study finds the number of people in need of resettlement far surpasses the opportunities for placement in a third country.

US Sources Give News of a Halt in the Supply of Cluster Bombs to Saudi Arabia: Antidote after the Death of Yemenis

So far in 2016, at least 7,500 refugees have arrived in Yida, South Sudan fleeing nearly five years of conflict in Sudan’s South Kordofan state.

Rohingya Muslims, in camps, wait for what democracy led by a Nobel peace prize winner will bring them. So far: Nothing.

Techniques of preventing and responding to violence against women were discussed in an experts meeting.

Techniques of preventing and responding to violence against women were discussed in an experts meeting.

Lawyers Can’t Meet Defendants; Charges Include “Spreading Shiism”

The ODVV held this education workshop with the cooperation of UNIC in Iran.