Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today called on UN member states to act with urgency towards a ceasefire and to ease the suffering of the Sudanese people.
Statements | HRC
Enhanced interactive dialogue on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, at the 58th regular session of the Human Rights Council.
Edited News | OHCHR , UNOG
“We are at an inflection point in the crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Conferences , Statements | HRC
Interactive dialogue on the High Commissioner's report on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, at the 58th session of the Human Rights Council.
Edited News | HRC
Investigators tasked by the UN Human Rights Council to track alleged grave abuses of power by top Nicaraguan officials on Wednesday insisted that the International Court of Justice should prosecute what they called the systematic and systemic repression of the country’s people.
Press Conferences | HRC
Launch of the latest report by the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua
Edited News | WHO
Gaza: Polio campaign reaches target, additional medical corridors needed, says WHO The second mass polio vaccination campaign in Gaza has reached almost 548,000 children under the age of 10, according to the UN health agency (WHO). That represents 92 per cent of the 591,000 due to be vaccinated, said Dr Rik Peeperkorn, Representative of the...
Press Conferences | HRC , WHO
Rolando Gómez of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, chaired the hybrid briefing, attended by spokespersons and representatives of the World Health Organization.
Statements | UNCD
UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the 2025 Conference on Disarmament High-level Segment.
Edited News , Conferences | OHCHR , UNOG
At the opening of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk called for a solution based on the rights, needs and aspirations of the Ukrainian people.