GENEVA (Reuters) -The head of the United Nations human rights office called on Friday for Syria's interim authorities to ...

There has been an increase in killings of and attacks against Palestinians by settlers and security forces in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, the United Nations human rights office said on ...

The interim government has used arbitrary detention to target perceived political opponents and has yet to deliver systemic reforms to protect human rights, says the rights organisation ...

The interim government has clarified that the main objective of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for ...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a report Wednesday on the human rights situation in Ukraine, showing that intensified military operations by Russian ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, condemned the storming of the UN Human Rights office in Yemen in a press release on Tuesday. The office in Sana’a, the capital city ...

Srilanka, June 24 -- Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, held a meeting with Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, at the Prime Minister's Office yesterday. Prime ...

Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of this expanding global ...

After Maduro's government expelled the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights from Venezuela in February 2024, the agency relocated to Panama and Geneva and continues to receive ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council is attempting to do an end-run around the Trump administration by advancing an OIC-backed resolution that could enable prosecution of Israeli and U.S. troops.

I had the chance to sit down and speak with the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk about a number of issues. In today’s segment, we’re going to look at Israel’s attack on Gaza.