The U.N.'s decision to hire four new staff for its controversial anti-Israel commission, despite an ongoing liquidity crisis, ...

The visit by the current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, to Sri Lanka last week failed to ...

Extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts, and floods, have increased in frequency by a factor of two or three ...

Mass atrocities are under way in North Darfur, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The Geneva-based NGO called for ...

The nation that was born today, the Fourth of July, is demonstrably no longer “the land of the free and the home of the brave ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced disappointment on Wednesday following Venezuela’s resolution to label UN High Commissioner for Human Rig ...

Ministerial Meeting of the Bali Process, Bali, Indonesia, 23 March 2016. Statement by Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection ...

The UN Security Council will not intervene in Gaza, writes a former UN staffer. This does not mean that UN member states ...

UN secretary-general 'reiterates that he is deeply concerned about reports of the arbitrary detention of opposition figures, ...

Europe reels as Spain and England record their hottest June, wildfires spread, heat alerts issued and public urged to brace ...

I am gravely alarmed by the steps taken or being considered by Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine to withdraw from the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, ...