Alena Douhan

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  • Tehran papers 2023-07-08 09:05

    Disgrace of human rights claimants

    In a note, Siasat-e-Rooz discussed the UN Human Rights Council's meeting about Iran and said: While the world is seeing the genocide and widespread crimes of the Zionist regime in Jenin, the widespread repressions in France, the daily killings in the streets and schools of America because of the freedom to carry arms and the warmongering of Western leaders, especially the United States and England, in Ukraine, the Human Rights Council held a meeting about Iran in an action contrary to global priorities.

  • Kanaani 2022-09-20 21:46

    Foreign Ministry: Sanctions cause Iranians pain

    TEHRAN— According to Nasser Kanaani, spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, the UN special rapporteur's reports illustrate how much the US government sanctions have caused "pain" and "damage" to the Iranian people rather than the government.

  • Kazem Gharibabadi 2022-09-19 21:47

    Iran actively monitoring UN report on effects of U.S. sanctions: Human rights chief

    TEHRAN- Kazem Qaribabadi, Head of Iran's Human Rights Headquarters and Deputy Chief of the judiciary, emphasized that his nation is steadfastly committed to implementing the recommendations made in the UN Special Rapporteur on the Negative Impacts of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights Alena Douhan's report on the effects of U.S. sanctions on Iranians' daily lives.

  • Zarif 2022-09-14 21:40

    Ex-FM: US calls economic terrorism sanctions, weaponizes food, medicine

    TEHRAN - Iran’s former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday pointed to remarks by UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan who has confirmed the U.S. bans on Iran is causing civilian deaths, saying Washington’s “economic terrorism” that is falsely called “sanctions” is killing Iranians, including children.

  • 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.

  • No good intention justifies illegal sanctions 2022-05-20 18:33

    No good intention justifies illegal sanctions

  • 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.