United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk made several pronouncements in Sri Lanka which tell us that he ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

There are many things that happened in this war that are clearly war crimes,” Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says about Israel’s war on Gaza. Democracy Now!'s Amy ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts, and floods, have increased in frequency by a factor of two or three ...

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...

Venezuelan opposition member Pedro Urruchurtu spoke to the UN about spending more than 400 days sheltering in the Argentine ...

Body stays coy on details but alludes to similarities with 2023 espionage campaign The International Criminal Court (ICC) ...

The UN's top rights official on Monday urged the international community to confront the growing human rights implications of climate change.Speaking at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, High ...

The United Nations says all sides in the conflict in the eastern DRC have committed human rights abuses, some of which could ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk expressed his complete support for the direction Sri Lanka ...

Venezuela's ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, "persona non grata," criticizing the U.N. official for ...