The U.N.'s decision to hire four new staff for its controversial anti-Israel commission despite an ongoing liquidity crisis raises questions about spending priorities as the U.S. weighs funding.

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

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 ...

Extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts, and floods, have increased in frequency by a factor of two or three ...

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...

The UN's top rights official on Monday urged the international community to confront the growing human rights implications of climate change.Speaking at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, High ...

Venezuelan opposition member Pedro Urruchurtu spoke to the UN about spending more than 400 days sheltering in the Argentine ...

Body stays coy on details but alludes to similarities with 2023 espionage campaign The International Criminal Court (ICC) ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) Volker Türk speaks during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.

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 ...