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President Donald Trump had long threatened that he could order military strikes on targets on Venezuelan territory after months of attacks on boats accused of carrying drugs from the South American country. President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela said the U.S. military operations were a thinly veiled effort to oust him…

United Nations human rights experts have said that the United States' naval blockade of Venezuela and related military actions amount to an "armed attack" under international law

On International Human Rights Day, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, emphasised the need to "reclaim" these fundamental values, which he says have been undermined in Europe.

The United Nations chief is calling on Yemen’s Houthi rebels not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in good faith” to immediately release all detained staff from the U.N. and foreign agencies and missions

More than 100 people killed in US military strikes targeting small boats in the Caribbean in 2025

UN human rights chief Volker Türk urged the Trump administration to investigate a reported second strike to finish off survivors of an alleged drug vessel in September.

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding a one-day special session to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region and other atrocities committed last month by paramilitary forces fighting the army

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has called U.S. strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean "unacceptable" and called for an investigation on them.

Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States