Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has launched an appeal to raise $500 million for 2025 to address ...

As violence and urban combat escalate within Goma, civilians face grave risks – including from the use of explosive weapons ...

"We must condemn it in all its forms, alongside bigotry, intolerance, and hatred," Mr. Türk advocated, urging people to take ...

The UN warned of a critical 24 hours in Goma, DRC, amid a rapidly deteriorating situation due to clashes between the army and ...

United Nations high commissioner for human rights Volker Türk said that the UN fact-finding report on the atrocities during ...

The UN human rights chief appealed on Thursday for $500 million in funding for 2025 to support its work such as investigating human rights abuses around the world from Syria to Sudan, warning that ...

Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus has also sought support from Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, on the ...

The M23 armed group and the Rwanda Defence Forces have been fighting the DRC armed forces, backed by the Wazalendo armed group, in the city of Goma. Shells have landed in at least two sites hosting ...

“As the Sudanese Armed Forces [SAF] and Rapid Support Forces [RSF] battle for control at all costs in the senseless war that ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has said the UN fact-finding mission on the atrocities during the July-August uprising is in a final stage and will be released by mid-February.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk sounded an urgent alarm on Friday over the escalating ethnic violence in Sudan. Reports of ethnically motivated attacks, hate speech, ...

On this day, 80 years ago, some 7,000 prisoners who had been left to starve in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and ...