UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Tuesday said Myanmar was witnessing intensified violence, repression and intimidation ahead of military-controlled elections. Civilians were being threatened by ...

I am alarmed by reports that areas around villages and cultural sites are being struck by fighter jets, drones, and artillery ...

On April 13th, 1989, a 24-year-old law student walked up to UN headquarters in Vienna for the first day of a short term contract. Few would have paid much attention to Volker Türk that morning. “I ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks during a press conference in Geneva, 12 February, 2025 ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief warned Thursday that the world is at an especially dangerous moment in history, with disregard and disrespect for international law “reaching a ...

The United Nations warned that Venezuela's human rights situation has deteriorated since June, citing what it described as ...

Many UN organisations, including the World Health Organisation and the International Organisation for Migration, have slashed ...

GENEVA – With wars and violence uprooting record numbers of people worldwide, UNHCR’s international protection chief today called for a renewed spirit of multilateralism to provide effective refugee ...

GENEVA — The U.N. human rights chief called Monday for a quick end to the “repression of independent voices” in Russia and expressed concerns about the “persecution” of opposition leader Alexei ...

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is one of the most difficult jobs at the international body. On the one hand, some UN member-states are corrupt dictatorships that ...

The European Union is not immune to the erosion of fundamental human rights. That's the warning from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, as the world marks ...