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By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS - UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Thursday that the fight for Khartoum, likely involved widespread summary executions of civilians after its recent recapture by the Sudanese Armed Forces. He cited…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 9th August. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday said that a decision of the Constitutional Court in Thailand to dissolve the largest political party was deeply…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 5th August. UN human rights chief Volker Turk on Sunday called for an immediate stop to the violence in Bangladesh, which claimed scores of lives, including those of police officers, over the…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 5th March. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday warned that the war in Gaza risked morphing into a much “wider conflagration” enveloping every country in the Middle…

Anjali Sharma   GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 2nd March. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva Volker Türk on Friday told the Human Rights Council session that the crisis in Myanmar is a “never-ending nightmare. He warned that…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 27th July. UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Wednesday voiced his concerns on severe electoral clampdown by the Cambodian Government during the weekend vote, including restrictions on…

UN human rights chief Volker Türk  on Wednesday said that the suffering experienced by millions of civilians across Ukraine must not become the new normal.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday met with the Bangladeshi officials, civil society representatives and Rohingya refugees during her first official visit to the country.

Anjali Sharma  GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 25th June. UN human rights chief Michele Bachelet warned Friday’s decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn the 50-year-old Roe v Wade ruling guaranteeing abortion across the United States…

Anjali Sharma GG News Bureau UNITED NATIONS, 14th June. UN High Commissioner for human rights Michele Bachelet on Monday told the Human Rights Council which is her last session as she doesn’t seek a second term said that war in Ukraine…