UN Special Rapporteur

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  • Francesca Albanese 2024-09-15 20:05

    UN rapporteur slams Israel's ‘genocidal conduct’

    The UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory has accused Israel of deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza.

  • Francesca Albanese 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.”

  • ICC 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.

  • UN Official 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. 

  • Alena Douhan 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.

  • Cancer patients 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.

  • Alena Douhan 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.

  • Alena Douhan 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.

  • Alena Douhan 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.