Recently freed Belarusian dissident Siarhei Tsikhanouski is demanding the international community act to secure the release ...

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

The United Nations conference on financing for development should help pave the way for meaningful progress on improving ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for ceasefire in Gaza, addresses human rights issues in Sri Lanka.

The UN is monitoring the situation in Kenya in the wake of deadly antigovernment protests on Wednesday. At least 400 people ...

Sri Lankan leaders,once again assured the Government’s commitment to working constructively with the Office of the High ...

This brief is based on an extensive analysis of how human rights treaty bodies have engaged with individual states’ ...

It wasn’t an average Thursday morning in Manhattan. In the early hours, UN diplomats (and UN News) hit the streets in their ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday stressed the need for Sri Lanka’s domestic rights accountability mechanism, saying that it can be supported by international means. “Sri ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk met with the leaders of the National People’s Power (NPP) at the JVP ...

During the 59th Session of the Human Rights Council, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, Reem Al Salem, praised the United Arab Emirates for its significant progress in ...

They cite Gaza, Sudan, Yemen among conflict zones where starvation is weaponized, aid is obstructed, humanitarian workers ...