Volker Türk

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday strongly condemned the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to South African jurist Navi Pillay, accusing the Nobel Committee of honoring a figure who has spent years promoting allegations against Israel

Tennessean reporter Molly Davis joins CNN's Audie Cornish to talk about what's next after Tennessee's botched execution of death row inmate Christa Pike

The most recent widespread outbreak of gang violence has been fuelled by the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse on 7 July 2021

The United Nations (UN) on Friday, September 25, released a fresh update of its database of companies with activities in Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories, listing 214 firms from 11 countries

The report documented 1,004 verified cases of conflict-related sexual violence between February 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and July 2026

Volker Turk criticised Israel’s actions in clearing rubble in the enclave in a statement issued on Tuesday

The United Nations human rights chief demanded accountability for swelling numbers of deaths in US immigration custody on Monday, urging Washington to halt deportations to places where people face "irreparable harm."

For weeks, tech leaders have suggested foreign powers—maybe even socialists—are really behind the U.S. populist movement against artificial intelligence

More than 33,000 Palestinians forced out of the Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarm camps have not been permitted to return home

Sudan's war erupted in April 2023 following a power struggle between Sudan's military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) ahead of a planned transition to civilian rule

New decrees let Cuban firms bypass state in imports, exports and banking

Volker Türk, the U.N. human rights chief, urged the United Nations Security Council to refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court

Volker Türk, the U.N. human rights chief, urged the United Nations Security Council to refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court

Trump ignored warnings from Tulsi Gabbard and US intelligence the Iran war would backfire: report

On Monday, Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militia attacked another crude oil tanker in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia

Repeated warnings without action raise questions over US leverage amid Hormuz standoff

The UN human rights chief voiced alarm at the rising civilian toll of escalating hostilities in Yemen on Monday, urging efforts to avoid plunging the country back into full-scale war

The United Nations has warned the Ugandan government over what it described as an escalating crackdown on civil society groups and opposition figures in the country

Rift deepens after sharp clash over UN rights chief’s second term and a scathing social media post

The visit came about a week before Lebanese and Israeli officials are to meet in Rome for talks on implementing a framework deal reached June 26

U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk faces a vote Friday for a second four-year term but is running into opposition from critics and some countries for his criticism of Israel's attacks in Gaza and his approach to China’s crackdown on its Uyghur minority

Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden

The Saudi strikes came after a Saudi vessel, the NCC Masa, sustained minor hull damage after it was attacked while sailing in the Red Sea on Friday

Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden

However, the US has done little to signal that it will take imminent action in Nicaragua, while the country’s co-presidents — Daniel Ortega and wife Rosario Murillo — have largely kept a low profile and avoided provoking the Trump administration

But Kosta quickly put those concerns aside after revealing Trump walked back his threats on Tuesday

OHCHR called on the parties to the war, and corporations involved in the value chain of Sudanese commodities, to ensure compliance with international law

An islandwide blackout struck Cuba on Friday for the second time this week as the nation of nearly 10 million people grapples with a crumbling power grid and fuel shortages stemming from a U.S. energy blockade

A 27-year-old university student, Sarah was at a crowded fuel station in the city of el-Obeid, on the front line of Sudan's civil war, when a drone struck without warning

For much of Sudan’s three-year civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), international attention has centred on Khartoum and the Darfur region

Statement at UN Human Rights Council calls for civilian protection and humanitarian access

Until recently, North Korea and Afghanistan were the only countries in the world without diplomatic relations with France

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has described negotiations with the United States as hitting a wall, with no breakthroughs made towards ending sanctions against the Caribbean island

Authorities must expedite deportations, enforce compliance across provinces and submit reports by July 11

Trump rants about communists after canceling affordable housing bill signing

Sudan has been hit by a devastating civil war since 2023, following a fallout between the army the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)

The Thai-based Civil Society Network for Human Trafficking Victim Assistance (CSNHTV) sent a letter to Thai police urging them to take action

Each “paramotor” has two or three soldiers strapped in — one piloting, the others holding the bombs

The rules, approved on Wednesday, enable the 27 EU nations to open "return hubs" outside the bloc's borders, where they can send asylum seekers and migrants to whom they do not grant the right to remain

The heated confrontation in the European parliament came on Wednesday after lawmakers voted 418 to 218 to approve controversial measures aimed at increasing deportations of undocumented people

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres visited Haiti on Tuesday, where surging gang violence has left more than 1 in 10 people homeless

As recently as last week prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu outlined four elements Israel wanted to be included in the deal: removal of enriched uranium; dismantling of enrichment infrastructure; limits on missile production; and an end to Iranian support for regional proxies

G7 summit: Trump eyes Ukraine peace deal

The UN has called for regulation and accountability to prevent similar atrocities

Zainab, who did not wish to give her full name, is sitting among them, holding two of her surviving three children

U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk called on the authorities to tackle the rampant impunity in the crisis-ravaged Caribbean nation of 12 million people

The Middle East is witnessing parallel developments of diplomatic efforts and renewed military confrontation as tensions between the United States and Iran escalate once again

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concern over a possible "full war" developing in the Persian Gulf, amid heavy rhetoric and escalating attacks from the US and Iran

An Israeli strike on a vehicle in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon killed two people and sparked a fire that spread to nearby cars

Masked men set several homes they believed to house immigrants on fire, burned trash bins and a Belfast bus and pelted police with objects on Tuesday night

Oil prices jumped around 2% and stock markets fell

On Monday, Turk drew a line between the increasing restrictions on the Cuban economy and reports of heightened death rates, particularly among children

Nicola Killean, the Children and Young People’s Commissioner for Scotland, responded to a UK Government consultation on the issue

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, on Friday, May 22, condemned Western "tyranny" in wanting to "impose" homosexuality, weeks after a new law was passed to toughen sentences for same-sex relations