Photo courtesy Kumanan Kanapathippillai As the Chemmani mass graves are uncovered once more, Sri Lanka stands at a decisive ...

The U.N.'s decision to hire four new staff for its controversial anti-Israel commission, despite an ongoing liquidity crisis, ...

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Ministerial Meeting of the Bali Process, Bali, Indonesia, 23 March 2016. Statement by Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection ...

Europe is in the grip of an unprecedented heatwave, with Spain and England registering their hottest June temperatures in ...

The government of President Nicolas Maduro has rejected Turk's comments, made before the Human Rights Council in Geneva last week ...

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

There are many things that happened in this war that are clearly war crimes,” Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says about Israel’s war on Gaza. Democracy Now!'s Amy ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting the United States next week to meet with President Donald Trump and ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Body stays coy on details but alludes to similarities with 2023 espionage campaign The International Criminal Court (ICC) ...