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Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...
The visit by the current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, to Sri Lanka last week failed to ...
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 ...
During his official visit to Sri Lanka, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk welcomed proposed legislation to decriminalise same-sex relations. ..
A quaint village in northern Jaffna is currently throwing up evidence of Sri Lanka’s gross human rights abuses and poor ...
Various international bodies with vested interests cooperate with the Western agenda. There cannot be a better example than ...
UN secretary-general 'reiterates that he is deeply concerned about reports of the arbitrary detention of opposition figures, ...
Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...
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 ...
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) Volker Türk speaks during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.
On the seventh day of the second phase of re-excavations at Chemmani in July 2025, I stood before a shallow grave where ...