Tag: UN human rights

A new United Nations human rights report has raised alarm over the role of Sudan's globally significant gum arabic trade in sustaining the country's prolonged conflict, warning that one of ...

According to a UN Human Rights Office report, the Government of Israel has "accelerated unlawful settlement expansion" and annexation of large parts of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem ...

International efforts to abolish the death penalty took center stage at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, February 25 as UN human rights chief Volker Türk condemned a sharp rise ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has issued a powerful plea for a radical overhaul of global drug policies.  Speaking at the ‘Dealing with Drugs II’ ...