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

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

There are many things that happened in this war that are clearly war crimes,” Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says about Israel’s war on Gaza. Democracy Now!'s Amy ...

The U.N.'s decision to hire four new staff for its controversial anti-Israel commission despite an ongoing liquidity crisis raises questions about spending priorities as the U.S. weighs funding.

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

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

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

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

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is calling for fresh efforts by "all states with influence" to ease the "horrific" conditions in Gaza and the West Bank. "Resolving the ...

GENEVA — Barely a month after taking office as the United Nations’ new human rights chief, Volker Türk was in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region last week meeting victims of a conflict that has ...

On April 13th, 1989, a 24-year-old law student walked up to UN headquarters in Vienna for the first day of a short term contract. Few would have paid much attention to Volker Türk that morning. “I ...

The meeting between Türk and Maduro lasted for about one hour. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Volker Türk reviewed the situation in the ...