The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief on Thursday appealed for $500 million in extra-budgetary resources ...

United Nations (UN) agencies warn of worsening humanitarian and human rights crisis in eastern Democratic Republic (DR) Congo ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has launched a US$500 million funding appeal for 2025, to address global ...

High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Friday warned that the escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could lead to a further deterioration of the ...

A UN office has published a report carrying testimonies from North Korean defectors about their country's heightened ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Damascus, Syria Jan 15, 2025.

The UN rights chief said Thursday his office would need $500 million on top of its regular budget to help face towering rights challenges around the world this year. “Lives are at stake if we don’t ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged “all those with influence” to move quickly to end the deadly ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk described the “senseless” war where alleged war crimes have been ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council, prohibiting any future funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Trump on Tuesday also ...