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

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

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

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 ...

On 15 June, following a prolonged siege lasting over a year, the RSF launched an aggressive ground assault on El Fasher, a ...

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

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 ...

I am gravely alarmed by the steps taken or being considered by Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine to withdraw from the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, ...

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

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 ...