The human rights organization Hengaw has reported the execution of an Afghan citizen in Bandar Abbas prison, Iran, despite ongoing international calls to stop executions in the country. The ...

DAMASCUS, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Wednesday urged the international community to reconsider sanctions on Syria and focus on efforts to rebuild the ...

In a historic visit to Damascus, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk urged Syria to embark on a national reconciliation process, aiming to ensure justice for five decades of atrocities ...

DAMASCUS - U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Wednesday for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ensure justice for crimes committed over the past five decades of ...

Beirut, Lebanon - January 16, 2025 Interim Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib meets with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk at the Lebanese Foreign Ministry in ...

United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was “crucial” for Syria after the fall of Bashar Al-Assad, during the first-ever visit by someone in his post to the ...

DAMASCUS, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Wednesday urged the international community to reconsider sanctions on Syria and focus on efforts to rebuild the ...

#Venezuela: UN Human Rights Chief @volker_turk deeply concerned at further reports of arbitrary detentions and intimidation, including of human rights defender Carlos Correa & opposition members ...

UN rights chief Volker Turk yesterday said transitional justice was “crucial” for Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, during the first-ever visit by someone in his post to the country.

Volker Turk posted a video message on X following his first visit to Syria since the fall of Bashar Assad in December. Speaking from Sednaya Prison in the capital Damascus, which he described as ...