The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk will undertake an official visit to Sri Lanka from 23 to ...

GENEVA (20 June 2025) - UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned today of the disastrous consequences stemming from ongoing and escalating hostilities across the North Darfur and Kordofan regions in ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka tomorrow (23) ...

The United Nations (UN) has warned of the devastating impact of escalating violence in Sudan's North Darfur and Kordofan ...

Mr. Turk’s visit from June 23 to 26 is the first by a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Sri Lanka in nine years. The last visit by a UNHRC chief was in February 2016.

Israel has done it again—dragged the United States into another war it didn’t start. For over three decades, Prime Minister ...

Israel’s reckless Operation Rising Lion might attain ends that are the reverse of its intentions: Iran might hastily build a ...

Meanwhile, former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was attending the Valdai Discussion Club in St Petersburg, Russia, weighed in on the Israeli-Iranian conflict and criticised the G7 communiqué ...

Switzerland is lifting economic sanctions on Syria, but targeted measures against figures linked to the former regime remain ...

Emergency crews contained the oil and began removing some of the pollution from the water’s surface, said the St Gallen ...

Switzerland has voiced serious concern over rising tensions in the Middle East, and the UN chief says he is ‘alarmed’ by US ...

The European Union’s diplomatic service, European External Action Service (EEAS), concluded in a report Friday, that Israel may have violated its human rights obligations in the EU-Israel Association ...