UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk visited a recently discovered mass grave site on Jaffna's outskirts ...

Iran formally lodged a complaint with the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, following this month's war with Israel. In a ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk expressed his complete support for the direction Sri Lanka ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, emphasized the importance of Sri Lanka's domestic accountability in handling human rights issues. Speaking in Colombo, he highlighted the need ...

The number of Ukrainians killed and injured in the first five months of 2025 has increased by 1.5 times compared to the same ...

Gender-based violence is rising - especially in conflict – something which is a “shameless repudiation of the basic rules of ...

"The world has completely forgotten the crisis in Sudan" where "a slow death" has become the plight of millions, decried Adam Rojal, spokesperson of the General Coordination of Darfur Displaced People ...

On 15 June, following a prolonged siege lasting over a year, the RSF launched an aggressive ground assault on El Fasher, a ...

The United Nations says all sides in the conflict in the eastern DRC have committed human rights abuses, some of which could ...

A ceasefire between Israel and Iran has momentarily eased regional tensions after days of intense exchanges. But while international headlines shift to this geopolitical breakthrough, the humanitarian ...

The U.N. human rights chief says Israel's warfare in Gaza is inflicting "horrifying, unconscionable suffering" on ...

United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk is here on an official visit, with a packed agenda. He is however needed most in Gaza, which has become a human rights blackhole, with ...