The Latest Breaking News from Volker Türk

In a speech, Filippo Grandi criticized what he described as a growing disregard for international law among developed nations and emphasized that poorer countries continue to carry most of the global refugee burden.

The United Nations' Human Rights Chief welcomed the decision to expand the security mission for Haiti but warned that it is imperative to implement it soon

Internal letter also calls on UN member states to suspend arms sales, saying ‘criticising Israel is not enough’

POLICE Scotland is facing allegations of having breached people’s human rights in a bid to “subdue” pro-Palestine protests ...

POLICE Scotland may have breached people’s human rights with arrests at pro-Palestine demonstrations ...

Volker Türk says the Home Office proscription restricts right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the U.S. has sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese over her "campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel"

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 failing to protect the rights of Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador

Hit by a funding crisis, largely linked to a cut in the United States' contribution, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has been forced to announce the suspension of a fact-finding mission into human rights abuses committed in eastern DRC.