GENEVA - UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today urged the Israeli authorities to drop plans to introduce new legislation that would impose mandatory ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk condemned on Wednesday Israel's suspension of numerous aid agencies operating in Gaza, worsening an already intolerable situation for the people in Gaza. Türk urged ...

Climate change is now a human rights emergency. UN leaders and scientists warn that rising temperatures are violating rights ...

This is the latest in a pattern of unlawful restrictions on humanitarian access, including Israel’s ban on UNRWA (the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East), as well as ...

Police in Uganda said they have detained a prominent human rights activist as long-serving President Yoweri Museveni's government widens its crackdown on dissent and political opposition ahead of the ...

Voters in Myanmar are participating in the first phase of the country’s general election, held under military rule amid a ...

Several international humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), face being barred from working in Gaza from Thursday for failing to comply with Israel’s new restrictions for ...

The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, on Wednesday slammed Israel's threat to ban the operations of ...

United Nations human rights experts have said that the United States' naval blockade of Venezuela and related military ...

Ahead of Sunday’s presidential election in Guinea, the civic and political space has been severely restricted, marked by intimidation of opposition actors, apparently politically-motivated enforced ...