In a significant move to strengthen corporate accountability and protect human rights, Ghana has officially launched its ...

Mr. Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, held a meeting with Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, at the Prime Minister’s Office on 23 June. Prime Minister Harini ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk will visit to Sri Lanka from June 23 to 26. This marks the first visit by a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Sri Lanka since ...

GENEVA, 16th June, 2025 (WAM) -- Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed deep alarm over the escalating military confrontation between Israel and Iran, urging ...

We spoke with UN Deputy High Commissioner Nada Al-Nashif at the UN Pavilion at the 2025 Expo Osaka Kansai on global human rights issues, the role for Japan to play, and more.

I have just concluded the first visit by a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to Montenegro since independence. I would like to thank the Government for its invitation and the ...

It marks the first time that a high-level meeting on the North Korean human rights situation will be hosted by the UNGA. A previous high-level meeting on the subject, held in September 2014 during a ...

Since 7 October 2023, my Office has verified that State and settler violence has killed 909 Palestinians across the West Bank, including 191 children and 5 people with disabilities, some of which ...

Politics Donald Trump pulls the US out of the United Nations group supporting LGBTQ+ rights worldwide Trump used to say that promoting the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide was a key goal.

FIDH contributed to the call for inputs released by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, addressed to non-governmental organisations and other stakeholders to feed into the content of ...

21. The administration of the Office of the High Commissioner shall be subject to the Financial Regulations of the United Nations and to the financial rules promulgated thereunder by the ...