In the midst of the Women's Euro football championship in Geneva, Volker Türk, the UN human rights chief, called on Member States and sports clubs around the world to address the vast gender gap which ...

UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, has berated nations and clubs around the world for underpaying women in sports. Türk ...

Democracy Now! recently interviewed U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The ...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called for an urgent ceasefire on Tuesday, following a series of large-scale Russian missile and drone attacks on densely populated ...

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

A U.N. special rapporteur has been sanctioned by the United States over her work as an independent investigator scrutinizing ...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya’s president on Wednesday broke his silence on recent anti-government protests that left dozens dead, ...

One of the most shocking incidents was a massacre in Pont Sondé in Lower Artibonite in October 2024, where more than 100 ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the U.S. has sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese over her ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, for calling for international ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio slapped Treasury sanctions on United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca ...

As digital technologies rapidly reshape every aspect of society, the UN’s top human rights official has called for human ...