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THE United States Congress has called on Iran to release Baha’is imprisoned solely for their religious beliefs. In a resolution passed on Jan. 1, the House of Representatives expressed its condemnation of Iran’s “state-sponsored persecution” [...]

FLOODS killed 673 people and left another 159 missing in China last year, Zhang Zhitong, office head of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, said Saturday. “The death toll was about half the average number seen in the previous [...]

NEW York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an outspoken proponent of new gun-control laws in the United States, blasted US media for paying attention to gun-related deaths only after mass shootings like the Dec. 14 massacre at a Connecticut elementary school [...]

THE UN General Assembly on Dec. 20 expressed “deep concern” over Iran’s “serious ongoing and recurring” human rights violations, decrying abuses that include torture, an increase in executions, widespread restrictions on [...]

PRESIDENT Barack Obama put ending an “epidemic” of gun violence at the top of his second term agenda, denying he was “on vacation” on the issue before the recent school massacre. Obama called for concrete proposals within a month [...]

CITING a long list of abuses, a UN committee on Nov. 27 expressed “deep concern” over “ongoing and recurring” human rights violations in Iran. By a vote of 83 to 31 with 68 abstentions, the General Assembly’s Third Committee [...]

UN Secretary-general Ban Ki- moon and two UN agencies on Tuesday condemned the “senseless and inexcusable” killing of at least six people working on a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan in the past 24 hours, a UN spokesman said. “The [...]

EIGHT out of 23 children wounded in a knife attack in central China’s Henan Province will receive delicate surgeries, especially on their facial wounds, doctors said Tuesday. The eight elementary school students from Guangshan County have been transferred [...]

THE United Nations expert on human rights in Iran has told the General Assembly that he is “deeply troubled” by the situation in the country, describing a “climate of fear” where journalists, human rights defenders and minorities [...]

THE United Nations has started discussing a Russia-submitted General Assembly draft resolution on the inadmissibility of Nazism heroization but some countries oppose it, a source in the Russian delegation said. “The position of some countries often [...]

US President Barack Obama has spoken with 12 world leaders over the phone after winning reelection for a second term Tuesday last week, expressing his desire for continued close cooperation with them, the White House said Thursday. It said Obama spoke [...]

TWO new high-level reports issued at the United Nations this month express concern over continuing human rights violations in Iran, highlighting intensifying attacks on journalists and human rights defenders and continuing discrimination against women, [...]

HURRICANE-TURNED-SUPERSTORM Sandy Monday flooded streets, leaving many parts of the New York City in the darkness, affecting airports, subways, and even hospitals. Runways at the LaGuardia International Airport were submerged and some sections of the [...]

TWO United Nations Special Rapporteurs have expressed their deep concern at the situation of minority religions in Iran. The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, has joined with the Special Rapporteur on freedom [...]