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2024-02-17 21:58
UN Special Rapporteur says Oct. 7 attacks were 'in response to Israel's oppression'
GENEVA — Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, rejected French President Emmanuel Macron’s remarks that the October 7 Hamas attack was the “largest anti-Semitic massacre of the 21st century.”
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2024-01-08 20:58
UN rapporteurs criticize ICC for being slow in indicting those guilty of war crimes in Gaza
The UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, and UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing Balakrishnan Rajagopal criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Sunday for being slow in prosecuting those responsible for war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza.
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2022-06-15 20:55
Sanctions profoundly affected lives of Iranians: UN Special Rapporteur
TEHRAN - Alena Douhan, the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur, who recently visited Iran, spoke about the effects of sanctions on Iran, especially the lives of ordinary Iranians.
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2022-05-20 21:39
UN special rapporteur: Sanctions have negatively affected people, particularly the most vulnerable
TEHRAN — At the end of a 12-day trip to Iran, Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) on the enjoyment of human rights, issued a press release late on Wednesday about preliminary assessments of her visit to the sanctions-hit Iran.
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2022-05-20 21:21
Why is BBC trying to reverse reality?
TEHRAN — Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on sanctions, visited Tehran on May 7. Douhan, who has previously studied the effects of sanctions in Qatar, Venezuela and Zimbabwe, came to Tehran to comprehensively investigate the effects of sanctions on the daily lives of Iranians.
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2022-05-18 21:17
“My task is to show facts, which sometimes are horrible,” Alena Douhan says
UN special rapporteur: No good intention justifies illegal sanctions
TEHRAN — Speaking in a press briefing on Wednesday, the last day of her mission to Tehran, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCM) spoke about the reality of the sanctions’ impacts on the lives of the Iranian people.
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2022-05-10 21:39
UN official probing detrimental effects of sanctions in Iran
TEHRAN- Kazem Gharibabadi, Secretary of the Judiciary's Human Rights Council and Deputy Judiciary Chief for International Affairs, has stated that the mission of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Alena Douhan, is simply to investigate the effects of sanctions on Iran and she has no mission to investigate other issues.
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2022-05-06 21:19
UN special rapporteur to visit Iran
TEHRAN — The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights will start a visit to Iran on Sunday, Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi announced on Thursday.
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2021-10-30 21:06
Iran rejects ‘weaponization of human rights, selectivity and double standards’
TEHRAN – A senior Iranian diplomat in New York has called on certain states to stop weaponizing human rights amid tensions between Iran and the United Nations over a UN report criticizing Iran’s human rights record.
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2021-10-29 19:05
Iran rejects UN human rights report as ‘biased and politically-motivated’
TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has reacted to the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, dismissing it as “biased and confrontational.”