The Latest Breaking News from Volker Türk

North Korean escapees interviewed by the UN Human Rights Office expressed "a clear and strong desire for change".

Internal letter also calls on UN member states to suspend arms sales, saying ‘criticising Israel is not enough’

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 failing to protect the rights of Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador

Hit by a funding crisis, largely linked to a cut in the United States' contribution, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has been forced to announce the suspension of a fact-finding mission into human rights abuses committed in eastern DRC.

Death toll is highest yet reported in near-daily shootings since US-backed group began distributing food in territory

The U.N. human rights chief says Israel’s warfare in Gaza is inflicting “horrifying, unconscionable suffering” on Palestinians and has urged government leaders to exert pressure on Israel’s government and Hamas to end it

The UN human rights office said it was concerned about human rights violations and "potential evidence of extrajudicial killings" in Tripoli.

The United Nations human rights office has expressed concerns about the discovery of dozens of bodies in an area of Libya’s capital controlled by an armed militia

Extended closure said to be for maintenance and follows deaths of at least 27 people killed by Israeli troops near distribution site