OHCHR chief

Anjali Sharma               GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 25th July. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Wednesday issued a statement said he is “horrified”, at the recent attacks on three villages in East Sepik…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 8th June. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday visited Lao People’s Democratic Republic marked the first ever visit by a UN rights chief to the country. He discussed…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 1st June. UN High human rights official on Friday Volker Türk on Friday voiced serious concern over the dramatic deteriorating situation in Burkina Faso, where 1,800 people are reported to…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 25th May. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Friday called to end the violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, cited the reports of attacks against the minority Muslim Rohingya…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 18th May. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk on Friday has personally intervened to stop spiraling violence in Sudan that’s having a terrifying impact on millions of civilians,…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 16th May. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Wednesday said that the  adoption of the controversial “foreign agents” law in Georgia seriously undermines the freedoms of…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 8th May. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday urged Russia to end its crackdown on journalists in a statement issued shortly after President Vladmir Putin began a fifth…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 3rd May. UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk on Thursday urged the authorities in Georgia to scrap the controversial bill and engage in dialogue as protests continue in Georgia over a…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 20th April. UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday raised alarm over the escalating violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state between junta and opposition forces after reports of the military…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 17th April. UN rights chief Volker Türk said on Monday that a long conflict in Sudan has caused immense suffering and death but the situation could easily worsen with the news that the…