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 ...

In an opening speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Volker Turk said that warning systems for abuses as well as advocacy efforts for those wrongly imprisoned would be ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights chief said on Monday that donor cuts to his office would weaken global accountability efforts and be a comfort to dictators and authoritarians. In an ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Damascus, Syria January 15, 2025.

In an opening speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Volker Turk said that warning systems for abuses as well as advocacy efforts for those wrongly imprisoned would be ...

The United States withdrew from the hugely discredited UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), cut American funding for the United Nations, and condemned the UN-backed International Criminal Court (ICC ...

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 ...

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