The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

A UN office has published a report carrying testimonies from North Korean defectors about their country's heightened ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged “all those with influence” to move quickly to end the deadly ...

Worse violence "may be yet to come" in the conflict-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief on Thursday appealed for $500 million in extra-budgetary resources ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Damascus, Syria Jan 15, 2025.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Friday warned that the escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could lead to a further deterioration of the ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has launched a US$500 million funding appeal for 2025, to address global ...

The U.N. human rights chief has requested $500 million in funding for 2025 to address ongoing global rights abuses, ...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The United Nations (UN ... from Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan and Myanmar. The UN high commissioner for human rights said his 2,000 staff members working across 92 ...

The UN rights chief said Thursday his office would need $500 million on top of its regular budget to help face towering rights challenges around the world this year. “Lives are at stake if we don’t ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council, prohibiting any future funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Trump on Tuesday also ...