Human Rights

World 11/27/18, 05:11

Photos sent to VOA Persian on Monday showed dozens of doctors and their supporters holding signs calling for hospitalization of Farhad Meysami, who has been on a hunger strike for months

America 11/26/18, 19:45

Hunger and preventable disease are soaring amid the collapse of the country's socialist economic system

World 11/22/18, 05:30

China is backing a draft resolution introduced by Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea and Ivory Coast, calling for the U.N. to find peacekeeping missions by the AU

World 11/21/18, 13:24

Reporters were convicted of violating Myanmar's official secrets act

World 11/20/18, 13:35

UN Envoy, who is visiting Yemen Wednesday, hopes to lay the groundwork for year-end peace talks

World 11/20/18, 11:00

UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye tells VOA Persian he doesn’t expect the UN’s 3rd Committee ‘to do all that much’ on Iranian harassment of BBC Persian journalists

World 11/06/18, 16:55

Last week, a Bahraini court revoked the citizenships of 11 people charged with terrorism, according to local media reports

U.S. 10/23/18, 23:13

A U.N. expert says human rights defenders are being attacked and criminalized and more than 1,000 were killed between 2015 and 2017. Michel Forst is the U.N. special investigator on human rights defenders and his report to the General Assembly's human rights committee Tuesday says their situation "is deteriorating all over ...