In the midst of the Women's Euro football championship in Geneva, Volker Türk, the UN human rights chief, called on Member States and sports clubs around the world to address the vast gender gap which ...

UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, has berated nations and clubs around the world for underpaying women in sports. Türk ...

The United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) has said that relentless missile and drone strikes by Russian forces have ...

One of the most shocking incidents was a massacre in Pont Sondé in Lower Artibonite in October 2024, where more than 100 ...

Democracy Now! recently interviewed U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The ...

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

In a significant escalation of tensions, the United States under the Trump administration has imposed targeted sanctions on ...

Is the United States remaking the rules of global justice, or merely defending its own? The latest sanctions imposed on Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, have ...

I stand firmly and convincingly on the side of justice, as I have always done.” The words of Francesca Albanese, who tweeted on X, ring out in a world still trying to catch its breath after the US ...

An independent investigator is being sanctioned by United States over her work scrutinising human rights abuses in Palestinian territory ...

United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has criticized what she called the "obscene" decision by the United ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president on Wednesday broke his silence on recent anti-government protests that left dozens dead, urging police to “break the legs” of those who stole and burned ...