Full interview with U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The conversation touched on ...

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

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk called for urgent accountability and a halt to escalating violence in the southern Syrian city of Suweida on Friday, following credible reports of mass killings, ...

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

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk delivered a speech on Wednesday urging UN member states to invest more effort in addressing the gender gap in sports and promoting the rights of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Volker Türk, 57, is not widely known outside the United Nations, but he was seen as the front-runner in a field of 13 candidates interviewed for the role.

Volker Türk, the new UN high commissioner for human rights, assumes a tough legacy by Maram Stern, Opinion Contributor - 10/28/22 8:30 AM ET ...

GENEVA – UNHCR’s international protection chief called today for a return to a “more empathic and humane dialogue” focusing on human dignity, to counter fraught debates about refugees. In a key ...

Volker Türk has the greatest respect for those able to hold onto hope when all appears to be lost. As United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, he has devoted his life and career to ...