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

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

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

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.

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

Trump signed an order withdrawing the U.S. from the UNHRC, a 47-member international institution tasked with improving human ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...