Human Rights Watch appreciates the opportunity to submit information about the treatment of imprisoned women in Japan. This is in response to your Office’s call for input in preparation for a ...

Human Rights Watch joins 10 other organizations to provide input regarding Human Rights Council Resolution 52/11 on the question of the realization in all countries of economic, social and ...

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will hold its first high-level meeting next week over human rights abuses and violations by North Korea, diplomatic and civic group sources said Monday.

Human rights defenders rallied on Thursday to support the top UN expert on Palestinian rights, after the United States ...

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.

A resolution on new technology's impact on human rights, whose proposal was led by Korea, was adopted by consensus (agreement ...

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 ...

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 ...

Five leading international human rights organisations have called on United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, who arrived in Colombo yesterday (23) on a four-day visit, to ...

United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights, Volker Türk Statement To The UN Security Council Saturday, 5 April 2025, 9:46 am Press Release: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

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 ...

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 ...