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

During his official visit to Sri Lanka, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk welcomed proposed legislation to decriminalise same-sex relations. ..

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said allowing Haitians to stay in the country was against the “national interest.” The Trump ...

Gender-based violence is rising - especially in conflict – something which is a “shameless repudiation of the basic rules of ...

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 ...