Tag: Volker Turk

Iran's Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has asserted that Iran was not involved in the Hamas attack on Israel. This was his first televised speech since the attack. However, Khamenei lauded ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has deployed a field team to investigate the deadly attack in a village in Kharkiv. This comes a day after the incident ...

The International Rescue Committee has decried the missile attack in Hroza. A Russian missile struck cafe and grocery store in Hroza, a village in the Kupiansk district of the northeastern ...

According to findings from the United Nations’ Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), cases of online human trafficking in Asia have seen a significant spike. The office ...

The head of the United Nations Human Rights office, Volcker Turk, has bemoaned the injustice shown to the people of Rohingya, after their departure from Myanmar, as a result of ...

According to a United Nations panel, numerous reports and issues of human right violations in Uganda, not to mention, the unlawful killings, has caught the attention of their team. The ...

In the wake of Quran burnings in parts of Europe, the U.N Human Rights Council has unanimously endorsed a resolution calling on nations to do more to prevent religious hatred, ...

The International Day for Countering Hate Speech has been observed by the United Nations. The commemoration was meant to encourage individuals to join forces to create increased awareness and courteous ...

A resolution has been passed by the United Nations’ top human rights council, that brought attention to the growing number of civilian deaths and rights violations in Sudan, since a ...

Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for human rights, has urged the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni to block the anti-LGBTQ bill that prescribes harsh penalties for some homosexual offenses, including ...