World News in Brief: Haiti aid response, strikes across Lebanon’s Blue Line, UNEP welcomes Iran prisoner release, healthcare for the displaced

PNP DeskApril 8, 2024September 19, 202408 mins

Since early March, the World Food Programme (WFP) has reached more than 500,000 people, providing school meals, social protection and emergency activities nationwide. The agency has also served some 500,000 hot meals to over 76,000 internally displaced persons in 57 sites in the greater Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. Aid partners have also delivered nearly four million…

UN calls for restraint following Iran consulate attack in Syria

PNP DeskApril 2, 2024September 19, 202405 mins

Briefing ambassadors a day after the attack, Assistant-Secretary-General Khaled Khiari stressed the need for restraint. “We appeal to the Council today, as we do every month, to continue to actively engage all concerned parties to prevent further escalation and the worsening of tensions that undermine regional peace and security,” he said. Respect diplomatic premises UN…

Iran: Harassment, reprisals continue for Mahsa Amini’s family

Iran: Repression continues two years after nationwide protests

PNP DeskMarch 18, 2024September 19, 202408 mins

Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran – a group of Council-appointed independent experts – said that Ms. Amini’s death in September 2022 was “unlawful and caused by physical violence” for which the State is responsible. Chairperson Sara Hossain told the forum’s 47 Member States that after Ms. Amini’s death, young…

World News in Brief: Rights violations in Iran, Haiti chaos grows, prison reform in face of pandemic threat

PNP DeskMarch 8, 2024September 19, 202408 mins

The report to the Human Rights Council said violations and crimes under international law committed in the protests sparked by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022 include extra-judicial and unlawful killings and murder, unnecessary and disproportionate use of force, arbitrary deprivation of liberty, torture, rape, enforced disappearances and gender persecution. “These acts…

Iran: Executions and detentions in spotlight at Human Rights Council

Iran urged to halt ‘horrific wave of executions’

PNP DeskJanuary 23, 2024September 18, 202405 mins

Mohammad Ghobadlou, 23, who reportedly had a mental health condition, was arrested in September 2022 for running over a policeman and killing him during a demonstration near the capital, Tehran. Thousands of people nationwide took to the street after the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody earlier that month. She had been detained by…

Iranian Embassy committed to restore bilateral ties with Pakistan

PNP DeskJanuary 19, 2024September 18, 202402 mins

ISLAMABAD (Czechangez Khan Jadoon): Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and Iran during a telephonic talk agreed to restore bilateral ties to a high level, announces the Embassy of Iran in Islamabad. “FMs had a very good phone talk to restore relations to a high level. hoping that with my colleague’s help @rahimhayat, we can set a…

World News in Brief: Griffiths demands end to ‘ruinous’ Sudan conflict, Ukraine-Russia prisoner exchange, Iran bombings latest

PNP DeskJanuary 4, 2024September 18, 202407 mins

The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator said in a statement that as the conflict continues to spread “human suffering is deepening, humanitarian access is shrinking and hope is dwindling.” He said a grim turning point between government troops and their rival RSF militia has been reached with the recent fighting in Aj Jazirah state, the country’s…

Guterres strongly condemns attack in Iran; over 100 reportedly killed

PNP DeskJanuary 3, 2024September 18, 202402 mins

More than 170 people have also been wounded according to Iranian officials at the scene. News reports citing local officials said that there were two explosions as thousands were walking along the route to a cemetery in Kerman which is the final resting place of Qassim Suleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike…

Effort to restart Iran nuclear deal ‘at a standstill’ Security Council hears

PNP DeskDecember 18, 2023September 18, 202407 mins

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreed in 2015 lays out the rules for monitoring Iran’s domestic nuclear programme and paved the way for US sanctions to be lifted. It was agreed by Iran, the five permanent members of the Council (China, France, Russia the United Kingdom and the United States) plus Germany together…

Security Council condemns deadly terror attack on Iran police station

PNP DeskDecember 17, 2023September 18, 202403 mins

The attack on the Rasak police station in the southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan province, which is prone to unrest, was claimed by “Jaish al-Adl,” a Sunni islamist organization active in the region. This was the latest in a string of similar incidents reported in the province, including a deadly armed attack on police officers in…