UN official Volker Turk drew ire of the Venezuelan government after condemning what he says are abuses by state forces.

Venezuela's government-allied National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk persona non grata, after Turk publicly decried what he ...

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations, a collaborative global dream built into reality out of the ashes of World War II, marks ...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is set to establish a presence in Bangladesh for an initial period of three years, marking a significant step in enhancing ...

Irish leader Michael Martin decries Europe’s inability to pressure Israel to stop ‘continuing slaughter of children’.

It has been a chaotic two weeks since Israel launched its surprise attack on Iran, and although the fighting is on pause, ...

From a village in newly independent Ghana to the forefront of the continent's democratic projectGROWING UP IN A NEW NATIONI was just old enough in 1957 to raise the flag of the newly independent Ghana ...

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria reports ongoing sectarian violence despite commitments from Syria's new government to ...

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Inaugurated in 1969, the Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture was named for Russell C. Leffingwell, a charter member of the Council who served as its president from 1944 to 1946 and as its chairman from ...

Israel has accelerated its attempts to erase Masafer Yatta after it was featured in an Oscar-winning documentary.

Iran’s supreme leader says could hit US bases again in future, as Israeli attacks kill at least 14 in north Gaza today.