Madam Chair, Members of the Permanent Forum, Delegates and participants, Excellencies, As we commemorate the 75 th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this year, we also celebrate...

Today, our Office released a report on the human rights impacts of new technologies on civic space in South-East Asia. While the expansion of Internet access and proliferation of digital technologies...

International Seminar for National Human Rights Institutions Impacts of Climate change on Human Rights Video Statement by Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Greetings to all. At the...

The right to peaceful protest is fundamental to human freedom, and its history in the United Kingdom is long, strong and honourable. People resisted tyranny. They denounced slavery. They demanded an...

My warm thanks to Child Rights Connect for the invitation to speak today. Congratulations on your 40 years of commitment to child rights – my Office is very grateful for our past and continuing...

GENEVA (26 May 2023) – We all want to help shape our futures, our communities, and our countries, but it is not possible when we do not have space to speak up and debate different viewpoints safely...

GENEVA (25 May 2023) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today hailed the arrest in South Africa of Fulgence Kayishema, one of last fugitives indicted in connection with the 1994...

This briefing paper addresses the human rights situation of older persons in the context of the ongoing armed attack by the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Its findings, based on the work of the...

Opening remarks by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk at his press conference at the UN in Geneva In December last year, I launched our year-long commemoration of the 75th anniversary...

Contribution to the G7 Research Group magazine for the Hiroshima G7 Summit, 19-21 May 2023 To analyse what has happened to our world in recent years is a sobering task: A multiplication of conflicts...