United Nations Human Rights Council chief Volker Türk issued a warning about the bloodshed, rape and torture in El Fasher, in southwest Sudan.

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 ...

The United Nations’ top human rights body ordered an inquiry into mass killings and sexual violence during the country’s ...

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 ...

Tanzania's president has announced an inquiry into killings during last month's election protests. President Samia Suluhu ...

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 ...

GENEVA — The U.N. human rights chief said Israel's warfare in Gaza is inflicting “horrifying, unconscionable suffering" on Palestinians and urged government leaders on Monday to “wake up” and exert ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk hopes Bangladesh will move forward with a comprehensive process of truth-telling, reparation and justice as the pathway to national reconciliation and ...

The head of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, Volker Türk, is lumping in concerns about the rise of “unelected” so-called “tech oligarchs,” which he says is as “equally alarming” as war and ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan launches an inquiry into election protest killings in Tanzania, orders the release of some ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly on Tuesday declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, persona non grata, criticizing the ...