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Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 24, 2021 43 Comments
Iran, one of the world's leading violator of women's and human rights, has been elected to the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women. The UN forum, which purports to advance "gender equality and the empowerment of women" across the globe, includes leading human rights abusers such as China, Cuba, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on February 15, 2021 22 Comments

Iranian authorities use electric shocks on gay, lesbian, and transgender children, along with other forms of torture, as a way to "cure" their sexual orientation, a new United Nations report disclosed. 

The disclosure comes as President Biden's administration decided to go easy on Iran's bloody human right record. The Biden staffers have been "silent on Iran’s rights record" as they hope to engage the regime on the nuclear issue, the Voice of America observed recently. 

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on February 07, 2021 12 Comments
United Nations inspectors have found new evidence that "Iran has undertaken work on nuclear weapons," the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. The UN nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), found traces of radioactive material at Iranian nuclear sites, indicating that the regime is secretly building a nuclear bomb, the report suggests.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 13, 2020 38 Comments
The United Nations Secretary-General has told world leaders to declare a climate emergency. "I call on all leaders worldwide to declare a State of Climate Emergency in their countries until carbon neutrality is reached," UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Saturday at a summit marking the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on September 19, 2020 19 Comments
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has singled out Israel for allegedly violating women's rights. The multinational body, which looks after UN's economic and social work, voted 43 to 3  in support of a resolution condemning Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, for violating women's rights, the Geneva-based watchdog group UN Watch reported on Friday. None of the other 192 member states of the UN were rebuked for its treatment of women.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 08, 2020 22 Comments
President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United Stated from the United Nations-led World Health Organisation (WHO). The notification terminating U.S. involvement in the UN agency went out on Monday. The Trump administration had halted funding for the UN health body in April on the grounds of "severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus."
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