President of the General Assembly, Excellencies, Colleagues, A conflagration of violence has been unleashed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – both in Gaza and the West Bank – as well as in...

Excellencies, A conflagration of violence has been unleashed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – both in Gaza and the West Bank – as well as in Israel. Given the magnitude of the challenges, I...

GENEVA (15 November 2023) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said today he was alarmed by reports that the arbitrary expulsion of Afghan nationals from Pakistan has been accompanied by abuse...

Everywhere – and especially in your countries – the climate crisis is generating profound and increasing threats to human rights. This is a matter of life and death. The dignity and the very survival...

Sabah al-khair, thank you for coming. I would like to share with you some of what I have seen and heard from Palestinians and Israelis in recent days. I just got off the phone with a colleague of ours...

Remarks at media briefing by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk following visit to Rafah, Egypt Masa' alkhayr, good evening, I have just returned from the Rafah crossing — the symbolic...

Mesdames, Sirs, I wish to refer to the discussions on the proposed adoption of a European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). I commend the European Union’s ambition with this proposal, which...

GENEVA (7 November 2023) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today begins a five-day visit to the Middle East region, amid Israel’s escalation in Gaza, in response to the attacks on it...

"Torture and other ill-treatment: the role of National Human Rights Institutions" Thank you for the opportunity to address this gathering, and my thanks also to the co-organizers of this conference...

NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME, 5 November 2023 – For almost a month, the world has been watching the unfolding situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in shock and horror at the spiralling...