The visit by the current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, to Sri Lanka last week failed to ...

Despite a brief uptick in rainfall across the continent, critical water shortages persist, particularly in major river basins ...

Mass atrocities are under way in North Darfur, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The Geneva-based NGO called for ...

The nation that was born today, the Fourth of July, is demonstrably no longer “the land of the free and the home of the brave ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced disappointment on Wednesday following Venezuela’s resolution to label UN High Commissioner for Human Rig ...

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

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

Europe reels as Spain and England record their hottest June, wildfires spread, heat alerts issued and public urged to brace ...

The government of President Nicolas Maduro has rejected Turk's comments, made before the Human Rights Council in Geneva last week ...

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

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 ...