High Commissioner Volker Türk says he has not been allowed access to inspect El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

One of the most shocking incidents was a massacre in Pont Sondé in Lower Artibonite in October 2024, where more than 100 ...

A U.N. special rapporteur has been sanctioned by the United States over her work as an independent investigator scrutinizing ...

The US is imposing sanctions against a senior UN official focused on the human rights of Palestinians, US Secretary of State ...

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 ...

I stand firmly and convincingly on the side of justice, as I have always done.” The words of Francesca Albanese, who tweeted on X, ring out in a world still trying to catch its breath after the US ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, for calling for international ...

GENEVA — Barely a month after taking office as the United Nations’ new human rights chief, Volker Türk was in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region last week meeting victims of a conflict that has ...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya’s president on Wednesday broke his silence on recent anti-government protests that left dozens dead, ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio slapped Treasury sanctions on United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca ...

On April 13th, 1989, a 24-year-old law student walked up to UN headquarters in Vienna for the first day of a short term contract. Few would have paid much attention to Volker Türk that morning. “I ...