The UN’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, has strongly condemned U.S. sanctions on four ICC judges as “deeply ...

Türk said the discoveries confirm the longstanding findings by the UN Support Mission in Libya and the former UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission, as well as from various witness accounts, regarding ...

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

I am profoundly disturbed by the decision of the Government of the United States of America to sanction judges of the International Criminal Court - specifically four women judges, from Benin, Peru, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United Nations human rights office has expressed concerns about the discovery of dozens of bodies in an area of Libya’s capital controlled by an armed militia. U.N.

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 ...

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 ...