The Latest Breaking News from Volker Turk

Uganda's Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a bid to scrap a controversial anti-gay law that is considered one of the toughest in the world.

Israel declared 800 hectares of land in the West Bank as property of the state on Friday, a move that will facilitate use of the ground for settlement construction. The area covers large swaths of the Jordan Valley, a vital region for a future Palestinian state, and is the largest…

Restricting aid could be seen as using starvation as a ‘weapon of war’, the UN’s human rights chief says.

UN rights chief says Israeli settler violence risks eliminating any possibility of establishing a Palestinian state.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed alarm at the "rapidly deteriorating security situation" in Haiti and called for more funding for the planned international police mission to be led by Kenya.

Volker Turk says world must avoid conflagration of conflict, which could have repercussions for region and beyond.

The plan on the table aims for a six-week truce, the exchange of scores of remaining hostages for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, and for more aid to enter Gaza -- but sticking points remain.

Israel has announced plans to launch a full-scale offensive on the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza strip, claiming it is the only way to "completely destroy" Hamas. But according to former French military officer and author Guillaume Ancel, a large-scale military operation in the city that is now…

As second anniversary of conflict nears, millions remain displaced at home and abroad, with ‘no end in sight’ to war.