According to a U.N. report, human rights violations are occurring against Afghans who were forcibly returned to their home ...

Afghan authorities have urged nationals to return, pledging amnesty for anyone who left after the Taliban returned to power ...

Stephen J. Rapp was chief of prosecutions at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the prosecutor of the Special ...

A UN report released on Thursday highlights cases of serious human rights violations against Afghans who were forcibly ...

Afghans who worked for the previous Nato-backed administration face beatings, torture and mock executions in prison, while women and girls are being persecuted based on their gender alone, according t ...

Full interview with U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The conversation touched on ...

Democracy Now! recently interviewed U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The ...

Call for reversal In a statement issued on Thursday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called for the “prompt reversal” of the sanctions against the Human Rights Council -appointed ...

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

The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, called for a “prompt reversal” of the U.S. sanctions. He added that “even in face of fierce disagreement, U.N. member states should engage ...