End child labour!

This year’s World Day Against Child Labour focuses on action taken for the 2021 International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour. It is the first World Day since the universal ratification of the ILO’s Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, and takes place at time when the COVID-19 crisis threatens to reverse years of progress in tackling the problem.

In Iran’s second presidential debate, lower tones and sketchy policy presentations

The second debate featuring all the seven candidates running in Iran’s 2021 presidential election has been marked by less aggressive confrontations but also overly broad delineations of policy, in what some of the candidates blamed on the format of the debate.

Isfahan, Porto to get sister cities

Isfahan Municipality's Director General for Communications and International Affairs Department announced the conclusion of a sister-city agreement between Isfahan and Porto in the next few weeks.

UN official:

Iran’s behavior with Afghan refugees outstanding, exemplary

Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, says what the Islamic Republic of Iran has done for Afghan refugees over the past four decades has been outstanding.

Iran's Ministry of Interior, UNICEF initiated joint effort to develop child-friendly cities

Iran's Interior Ministry and the UNICEF's Representative Office in Tehran renewed their collaborative program with the aim of strengthening national efforts to implement the Child Friendly Cities National Initiative.

Isfahan, Samarkand to ink sister-city agreement

Approved by the members of Islamic City Council, Isfahan will sign a sister-city agreement with Samarkand, Uzbekistan.