The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has raised concerns on the Saba Saba day protests ...

As digital technologies rapidly reshape every aspect of society, the UN’s top human rights official has called for human ...

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 ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Can human rights foster economies that promote equitable and sustainable societies? A Human Rights Economy does precisely that, by putting people and the planet at the centre of all economic decisions ...

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...

Extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts, and floods, have increased in frequency by a factor of two or three ...

Venezuelan opposition member Pedro Urruchurtu spoke to the UN about spending more than 400 days sheltering in the Argentine ...

The UN's top rights official on Monday urged the international community to confront the growing human rights implications of climate change.Speaking at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, High ...

A quaint village in northern Jaffna is currently throwing up evidence of Sri Lanka’s gross human rights abuses and poor ...

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 ...