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Protesters condemn campaign to remove Iran from UN Women’s Commission
Dec 15, 2022 05:39The streets in front of the United Nations office in Tehran once again became the scene of peaceful protests. This time a group of Iranian activists and students gathered to condemn an attempt by several Western governments to remove Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women or CSW, over what they call the Iranian government's violations of women's rights and crackdown on protests.
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Tehran: US resolution on Iran's removal from UN women's group lacks legitimacy
Dec 15, 2022 05:11Iran's Foreign Ministry says the United States-led resolution that terminated Iran's membership in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is devoid of legitimacy, calling the move politically motivated and against the UN Charter.
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Student bodies spurn US-led bid to suspend Iran from UN women's commission
Dec 12, 2022 04:34Several major Iranian student bodies rage against a US-led bid to have Iran suspended from a UN women rights commission, inviting commission members instead to travel to the Islamic Republic and personally observe "the reality" about women's lofty position within the Iranian society.
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Iran complains to UN chief about US bid to cancel its CSW membership
Dec 10, 2022 04:56The Iranian envoy to the United Nations has warned against the United States’ attempts to cancel the Islamic Republic’s membership in the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), denouncing the bid as politically-motivated and in contravention of the fundamental principles of the UN Charter.
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Landmines, unexploded ordnance left 159 people injured in Yemen’s Hudaydah over past 6 months, UN says
Dec 09, 2022 04:46The United Nations says land mines and other unexploded ordnance have caused some 159 casualties in Yemen’s strategic western port city of Hudaydah over the past six months, as Saudi-backed militants have been accused of planting landmines in areas adjacent to battlefields and in most residential neighborhoods in retaliation for their defeat.
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UN General Assembly says Israel must give up nuclear weapons, accede to NPT
Dec 08, 2022 11:53The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly backs a resolution urging Israel to give up its nuclear weapons and join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
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Ayatollah Sistani meets UN delegation, stresses need to promote culture of peaceful coexistence
Dec 08, 2022 02:21Iraq's top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has underscored the need to promote the culture of peaceful coexistence and rejection of hatred and violence, calling on followers of different faiths to observe mutual respect.
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Iran condemns use of unilateral sanctions as political leverage in relations between countries
Dec 07, 2022 03:20Iran has once again condemned unilateral sanctions by some countries and their use as political leverage in their bilateral relations.
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UN committee blasts Bahrain's ‘racist treatment’ of Shia community
Dec 06, 2022 10:40The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has expressed concern about the Bahraini regime’s racist treatment of the Shia community, who has been long subjected to systematic crackdown by the ruling Al Khalifah regime.
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UN, EU's Borrell call for probe into murdering of Palestinian youth by Israeli forces
Dec 04, 2022 03:35A senior UN official as well as the European Union’s foreign policy chief have expressed shock and horror at the murdering of a Palestinian youth by Israeli forces in a town near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, calling for a probe into the incident.