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

On the seventh day of the second phase of re-excavations at Chemmani in July 2025, I stood before a shallow grave where ...

A quaint village in northern Jaffna is currently throwing up evidence of Sri Lanka’s gross human rights abuses and poor ...

Photo courtesy Kumanan Kanapathippillai As the Chemmani mass graves are uncovered once more, Sri Lanka stands at a decisive ...

In 2024, the Nallur Pradeshiya Sabha allocated Rs. 5 million to recon struct the Siththup paththi cemetery. A private company ...

The U.N.'s decision to hire four new staff for its controversial anti-Israel commission, despite an ongoing liquidity crisis, ...

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

Ministerial Meeting of the Bali Process, Bali, Indonesia, 23 March 2016. Statement by Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection ...

Europe is in the grip of an unprecedented heatwave, with Spain and England registering their hottest June temperatures in ...

The government of President Nicolas Maduro has rejected Turk's comments, made before the Human Rights Council in Geneva last week ...

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