The US is imposing sanctions against a senior UN official focused on the human rights of Palestinians, US Secretary of State ...

I urge the prompt reversal of U.S. sanctions against a Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council, Francesca Albanese, in response to work she has undertaken under the mandate on the situation ...

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

An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the ...

United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has criticized what she called the "obscene" decision by the United ...

Venezuelan lawmakers declare UN human rights chief persona non grata Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

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 ...

The Council of Advisers has granted final approval for establishing a mission of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Dhaka.  The approval was given on Thursday at the 33rd ...

I am gravely alarmed by the steps taken or being considered by Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine to withdraw from the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk expressed his complete support for the direction Sri Lanka is pursuing under the leadership of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to ...