The General Assembly this afternoon recognized the International Day of Nowruz, a spring festival of Persian origin, and moved back the dates of the next high-level dialogue on Financing for Development, as it continued its sixty-fourth session.
The Obama administration should continue to endorse and rally international support for Iranians’ human rights. And if the government continues to stonewall on its nuclear program, intensified sanctions targeting the country’s military and rulers will exacerbate its economic woes.
Please participate in a symbolic hunger strike to support the people of Iran.
A bipartisan group of Senators, led by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), today announced their intention to introduce legislation that will impose targeted sanctions against members of the Iranian government responsible for human rights abuses.
The unnamed people who captured on video and made public the shooting death of an Iranian protester have been chosen as winners of a George Polk Award
Given the importance of this session, we, a network of international human rights organizations and civil society groups, will be holding a protest in front of the United Nations offices in Geneva on Monday February 15 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in order to condemn the systematic violations of human rights in Iran and express solidarity with the democratic movement of our people in Iran.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20100210/iran-suspends-googles-email-service.htmIran’s telecommunications agency announced that it would be suspending Google’s email services permanently, saying it would roll out its own national email service. Iran’s telecommunications agency announced that it would be suspending Google’s email services permanently, saying it would roll out its own national email service. (Reuters Photo) Google didn’t have an immediate comment about […]
The situation of human rights in Iran will be reviewed at the 7th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC), between February 15-17, 2010.
The Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would let President Barack Obama impose sanctions on Iran’s gasoline suppliers and penalize some of Tehran’s elites, a move aimed at pressuring Tehran to give up its nuclear program.
A bipartisan group of senators is pushing President Obama to move forward with new sanctions against Iran, now that his “end of 2009” deadline for meaningful response from Tehran — which the administration insists was not a deadline — has long past.
