As digital technologies rapidly reshape every aspect of society, the UN’s top human rights official has called for human ...

As digital technologies rapidly reshape every aspect of society, the UN's top human rights official has called for human ...

Photo courtesy of Kumanan Kanapathippillai The Chemmani cemetery, located near the entrance of Jaffna town, is once again the ...

During his official visit to Sri Lanka, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk welcomed proposed legislation to decriminalise same-sex relations. ..

On the seventh day of the second phase of re-excavations at Chemmani in July 2025, I stood before a shallow grave where ...

A quaint village in northern Jaffna is currently throwing up evidence of Sri Lanka’s gross human rights abuses and poor ...

The U.N.'s decision to hire four new staff for its controversial anti-Israel commission, despite an ongoing liquidity crisis, ...

Extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts, and floods, have increased in frequency by a factor of two or three ...

Ministerial Meeting of the Bali Process, Bali, Indonesia, 23 March 2016. Statement by Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection ...

The Venezuela government-allied National Assembly unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

Europe is in the grip of an unprecedented heatwave, with Spain and England registering their hottest June temperatures in ...