Adopts the annex to the present resolution, being the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner ... of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 1 8. The High Commissioner shall ...

Safeguarding the rights and well-being of people ... Formally known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR was established by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1950 in ...

Tear gas used for the dispersal of pro-european rally on December 1, Source: Guram Muradov/Civil.ge ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed his ... The Austrian Türk's office mentioned some 2,400 arbitrary detentions by Maduro's regime in the ensuing protests ...

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has called on Thailand to immediately stop the planned ...

Interim Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib meets with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk ...

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 iron-fisted ...

The United Nations' top human rights official said on Friday that diversity was not a threat and should be treasured, in ...

The UN rights chief calls for sanctions relief as he visits Syria for the first time::::Damascus, Syria ::Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights"The people of Syria need every ...

Israel has occupied the West Bank of the Jordan River, which Palestinians want as the core of an independent state, since the ...

ONE the most fundamental factors that makes a country maintain peace and tranquility is the observance of good governance ...

Never before has there been a visit by a United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner to Syria ... experience to listen to their plight. My Office – the UN’s Human Rights Office – has ...