During his official visit to Sri Lanka, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk welcomed proposed legislation to decriminalise same-sex relations. ..

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 ...

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

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 ...

Venezuelan opposition member Pedro Urruchurtu spoke to the UN about spending more than 400 days sheltering in the Argentine ...

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 ...

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 United Nations says all sides in the conflict in the eastern DRC have committed human rights abuses, some of which could ...

Venezuela's ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, "persona non grata," criticizing the U.N. official for ...