With the efforts of the Rehabilitation Department of the ODVV the workshop on the occasion of World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse (19 November) was held....
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) – 6 June 2013 - Urgent action is needed in Guerro, Mexico, where eight human rights defenders were missing following a public protest...
The United Nations human rights chief today condemned the rampant use of the death penalty by the Iraqi Government, which executed 21 people earlier this week, stressing the country’s justice...
This week’s revelation that the USA’s National Security Agency (NSA) has spied on 35 world leaders has only further exacerbated international outrage about its massive electronic surveillance...
The United Nations human rights chief today urged all branches of the United States Government to work together to close the Guantánamo detention centre, stressing that the indefinite incarceration...
The Ukrainian authorities must seize the current political opportunity to stop the high level of torture and other ill treatment being carried out by its police force by creating a genuinely...
The United Nations Committee Against Torture released a report Friday that deeply criticized the U.S. for its responses and investigations — or lack thereof — into counter-terrorism methods, police...
An independent United Nations human rights expert on Friday (31 May) urged the Government of Myanmar to respond unequivocally to the revival of a local order limiting the number of children...
The final statement of Iranian friendship associations with other countries and international NGOs in support of the people of Gaza was read by the director of the ODVV. According to ODVV public...
The 28th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council is taking place on 2-27 March 2015, at Room XX, Geneva, Palais des Nations. In a reaction to Ahmed Shaheed’s report on the...
Shiites are one of the largest religious minorities in the world, which have been far from achieving their legal and certain rights in some countries. Although Shiites have had a peaceful...
This project which was implemented with the cooperation of the ODVV, BAFIA and UNHCR and had began in March 2013 finished in December with the presentation of the final report.
According to Reuters the outgoing U.N. special envoy to Iraq accused the leaders of the MKO at a camp in Iraq of human rights abuses, an allegation the movement dismissed as baseless and...
Ten of thousands of protestors descended upon London's streets on Saturday to condemn Israel's attack on Gaza. Despite the blazing heat Palestine supporters continued chanting slogans such as "free...
This technical sitting was held in joint cooperation of the ODVV and Public Diplomacy and the Medias of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for Iran and other Countries Friendship associations and a...
This sitting was held by the ODVV in the conference hall of its headquarters in Tehran. According to the ODVV public relations this sitting commenced following the reading of the UN Secretary...
With the support of the ODVV, the Last Leaf play designed, written and directed by Mohammad Boroomand, an international play on peace and friendship went on stage in the Andisheh Culture Centre in...