High Commissioner Volker Türk says he has not been allowed access to inspect El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

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

As digital technologies rapidly reshape every aspect of society, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for human rights to be placed at the centre of this transformation.

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

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 head of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, Volker Türk, is lumping in concerns about the rise of “unelected” so-called “tech oligarchs,” which he says is as “equally alarming” as war and ...

Morocco is a model in deradicalization, said the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Friday in Rabat. Speaking at a debate on “Multilateralism and the Future of ...

The UN’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, has strongly condemned U.S. sanctions on four ICC judges as “deeply corrosive” to international justice. These judges, who ruled on cases ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has highlighted the need for a sincere and genuine approach to ensure ...

Volker Türk made the comments at the opening of the latest Human Rights Council session on Monday, in a broad address that also raised concerns about escalating conflict between Iran and Israel ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said Wednesday he was “shocked” by revelations of gross human rights violations uncovered at sites run by the Libyan militia SSA. He called ...

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 ...