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High Commissioner Volker Türk says he has not been allowed access to inspect El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.
A U.N. special rapporteur has been sanctioned by the United States over her work as an independent investigator scrutinizing ...
The US is imposing sanctions against a senior UN official focused on the human rights of Palestinians, US Secretary of State ...
There are many things that happened in this war that are clearly war crimes,” Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says about Israel’s war on Gaza. Democracy Now!'s Amy ...
I stand firmly and convincingly on the side of justice, as I have always done.” The words of Francesca Albanese, who tweeted on X, ring out in a world still trying to catch its breath after the US ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, for calling for international ...
Is the United States remaking the rules of global justice, or merely defending its own? The latest sanctions imposed on Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, have ...
Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio slapped Treasury sanctions on United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca ...
GENEVA — Barely a month after taking office as the United Nations’ new human rights chief, Volker Türk was in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region last week meeting victims of a conflict that has ...
On April 13th, 1989, a 24-year-old law student walked up to UN headquarters in Vienna for the first day of a short term contract. Few would have paid much attention to Volker Türk that morning. “I ...