Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, briefs a General Assembly informal meeting on missing persons.

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a series of resolutions on Harmony with Nature, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued an advisory opinion stating that environmental ...

The United Nations human rights office has expressed concerns about the discovery of dozens of bodies in an area of Libya’s ...

Dozens of bodies have been discovered at official and unofficial detention sites in Libya. The grim findings confirm deep concerns about abuse and torture at the facilities, according to the UN human ...

The United Nations is calling for an independent investigation after the discovery of dozens of bodies and evidence of human ...

United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk has expressed shock after the revelation of gross human rights violations at official and unofficial detention facilities run by Libya’s Stabilization ...

Volker Türk has the greatest respect for those able to hold onto hope when all appears to be lost. As United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, he has devoted his life and career to ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday called for swift, independent, and impartial investigations into the killing of dozens of Palestinian civilians near an aid distribution ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has said the human rights violations, including killings and disappearances, enforced during the mass uprising in Bangladesh ...

Deadly attacks on distraught civilians trying to access the paltry amounts of food aid in Gaza, are unconscionable. For a third day running, people were killed around an aid distribution site run by ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has condemned Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians at ...

Morocco is a model in deradicalization, said the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Friday in Rabat. Speaking at a debate on “Multilateralism and the Future of ...