UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk cautioned on Thursday that the UK government's decision to label the pro-Palestine group, Palestine Action, under terrorist legislation may contravene international ...

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

GENEVA - The UK Government's decision to proscribe the 'Palestine Action' protest group under terrorism legislation raises ...

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

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

A UN report says the Taliban have tortured and threatened Afghans forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan because of their ...

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

NNA - The following is a comment by UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Israeli military operations in Deir El Balah, Gaza: "The latest Israeli displacement orders, follow ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Calling for a ceasefire, release of hostages, and an “all-out effort” to get humanitarian assistance to Gaza, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday (June 26, 2025 ...