OHCHR GENEVA – A year after a deadly canopy collapse at a train station in Serbia set off a wave of student-led protests, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk urged renewed efforts to ensure accountability, saying it was crucial to restore …

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk praised Australia’ …

… Darfur and throughout Sudan, the UN Human Rights Council should urgently convene a special …

Australian Greens Labor Premier Chris Minns has come under fire for saying he is “proud” and “delighted” to welcome weapons manufacturers, who are implicated in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, to the City of Sydney as part of the Indo-Pacific Weapons Exposition …

The National Community Foundation (NCF) announced its Executive Director Vanya Reid-Hinkson has been selected to participate in the United Nations Fellowship Programme for People of African Descent, hosted by the Office of the United Nations High …

Sudan has formally presented evidence of alleged human rights violations by paramilitary forces to United Nations human rights officials in Geneva. The briefing detailed what Sudanese officials characterize as systematic atrocities committed by the Rapid …

GENEVA — The United Nations human rights chief has condemned the Trump administration’s military strikes on boats that it says are being used to smuggle drugs from South America, saying that they violate international law and should be investigated. Volker …

Above photo: United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. Martial Trezzini/EFE/File photo. On Friday, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk issued the first clear United Nations …

… make deep cuts in the UN human rights agency and cut off funding … a deliberate move to derail UN human rights machinery that investigates authoritarian governments …

… will be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR …