UN secretary-general 'reiterates that he is deeply concerned about reports of the arbitrary detention of opposition figures, ...

United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk made several pronouncements in Sri Lanka which tell us that he ...

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

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

The UN Security Council will not intervene in Gaza, writes a former UN staffer. This does not mean that UN member states ...

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

I am gravely alarmed by the steps taken or being considered by Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine to withdraw from the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, ...

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 ...

On 15 June, following a prolonged siege lasting over a year, the RSF launched an aggressive ground assault on El Fasher, a ...

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 ...