Iran has developed several national cancer control programs since the Iranian calendar year 1392 (March 2013- March 2014), for reducing prevalence and mortality while improving the quality of patients’ lives, deputy health minister has stated.Read More

Iran ranks first globally in the number cities and villages registered by the World Crafts Council (WCC), deputy tourism minister Pouya Mahmoudian said on Monday.Read More

Look at these numbers and votes: Approved with 48 votes in favor, 2 abstentions, and 0 against. After counting the votes and adopting this resolution, known as United Nations General Assembly Resolution 217, they called it the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.Read More

 Iranian short animated piece ‘Malakout’ directed by Farnoosh Abedi has recieved the honorary diploma at the Silk Road International Film Festival (SRIFF) in Dublin, Ireland.Read More

Indigenous and tribal communities are around three times more likely to face extreme poverty than others with women “consistently at the bottom of all social and economic indicators”, UN labour experts said on Monday.Read More

In the mountainous region of Kintobo, in Rwanda’s remote Western Province, it used to take medical staff more than three hours each way to drive to the capital city of Kigali to restock the health center.Read More

Numerous films of Iran’s post-revolution cinema have considered social issues such as women’s rights, addiction, poverty, the younger generation’s problems and lex talionis.Read More

Polish troupe Teatr Biuro Podrozy performed their acclaimed play “Silence”, which highlights children as the most numerous victims of wars in the Middle East, during the 38th Fajr International Theater Festival.Read More

“Silence, the Cochlea” is not the sole Iranian movie produced to attract people’s attention to the problems facing the deaf, but director Behrang Dezfulizadeh has said that he is seeking once again to bring hearing impaired people under the spotlight by this film. Read More

A woman in my knitting group recently asked if any of us knew where she could buy a gray wig. Though she seemed to have an ample head of hair, she reported that she’d been losing fistfuls every time she brushed or washed it. Obviously very upset about what was happening, she said she didn’t...Read More