The 28th Tehran International Book Fair opened just yesterday and already several titles have been banned from the fair for various reasons. The Mehr News Agency reports that according to Homayoon Amirzadeh, the head of the Committee for the Investigation of Publishing Violations, a book of Fatemeh Ekhtesari’s selected poems has been banned from the […]
Tag: International
Pew Study Finds Broad International Disapproval of Iran’s Human Rights Record
As Iran’s president-elect Hassan Rowhani prepares to take office in Tehran, he faces growing international concerns about the lack of personal freedoms in Iran. According to a new study by the Pew Research Center released on June 11, 2013, majorities in most of the countries polled asserted that Iran does not respect the rights […]
Iranian elected president of international rights body
Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Karim Lahiji has been elected president of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), succeeding Souhayr Belhassen, who served as FIDH chief for six years. The report on the FIDH website indicates that Lahiji, who previously served as FIDH vice president and president of the League of Defence […]
International Religious Freedom Report for 2012
Executive Summary Foremost among the rights Americans hold sacred is the freedom to worship as we choose…we also remember that religious liberty is not just an American right; it is a universal human right to be protected here at home and across the globe. This freedom is an essential part of human dignity, and […]
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY (8 March)
International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.
Majid Tavakoli Wins the International Student Peace Prize
Friday, 31 Shahrivar 1391 (September 21, 2012) Majid Tavakoli has won the 2013 International Student Peace Prize. According to Daneshjoo News, Tavakoli, one of the leaders of the Iranian student movement and a member of Tahkim Vahdat (the Office for Strengthening Unity), was announced as the winner of the International […]
Press Release of the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights in Iran (IOPHRI)
The centre of sedition, intrigue and deception in Qom, known as “The Institute of Religions and Sects of Qom” has published a long list of the activities of the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights in Iran.
Iran unable to get life-saving drugs due to international sanctions
Western measures targeting Tehran’s nuclear programme have impeded trade of medicines for illnesses such as cancer.
Hunger-striking activist attracts international concern
Twenty days into a hunger strike by jailed Iranian labour activist Reza Shahabi, labour organizations in various countries have expressed concern regarding Shahabi’s health.
International Human Rights Day
Because on this date in 1948, at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The history is well covered in this Wikipedia article, so I will not recapitulate it.