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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.
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UN General Assembly votes in favor of commemorating Palestinian Nakba Day
Dec 01, 2022 06:25The United Nations General Assembly has voted in a favor of a pro-Palestinian resolution to commemorate the Nakba (Catastrophe) Day, which marks the Israeli regime’s claiming existence in 1948.
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Iran underlines Syria's right to self-defense against Israeli aggression
Nov 30, 2022 02:42Iran lays emphasis on Syria's "legitimate right" to self-defense in the face of the Israeli regime's ongoing intermittent attacks against the Arab country's soil.
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'Iran will not cooperate with UN politicized fact-finding mission, has its own committee'
Nov 28, 2022 08:47Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says Tehran will not cooperate with the so-called fact-finding mission created after a UN Human Rights Council resolution, engineered by Germany, to probe claims of human rights abuses during the recent riots, stressing that Iran has already formed a national fact-finding committee to look into the events.
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Yemen urges UN to save lives of over 5,000 patients suffering from kidney failure
Nov 27, 2022 03:16The Yemeni Health Ministry has called on the United Nations to intervene immediately and save the lives of more than 5,000 kidney failure patients in the war-torn country, as health facilities are facing a severe shortfall of essential supplies and medication to treat the patients properly.
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UN: Footage of Ukrainian soldiers executing Russian prisoners appears to be 'authentic'
Nov 26, 2022 10:16UN human rights high commissioner has revealed that video images showing the execution of Russian soldiers who had surrendered appear to be “highly likely authentic” and called for a thorough investigation.
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UN envoy raises alarm at worsening crisis in Yemen, urges truce renewal
Nov 23, 2022 04:47The UN special envoy for Yemen sounds the alarm over a worsening economic and humanitarian situation in the war-ravaged country, which remains under a crippling Saudi-led siege, calling for a renewed cessation of attacks on Yemen by Riyadh and its coalition allies.
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UN rights office censures Saudi regime over surge in executions
Nov 23, 2022 02:27The United Nations human rights office has censured Saudi Arabia over the ultraconservative kingdom’s near daily executions in recent weeks and termination of a 21-month moratorium on implementing the death penalty for drug-related offenses.
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N. Korea slams UN chief as 'puppet of US' for rebuking latest missile launch
Nov 21, 2022 05:53North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui has called the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "a puppet of the United States" for joining the US-led condemnation of the country's recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test.