Gangs in Haiti killed at least 5,600 people last year, according to a new United Nations report. The report from the Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights said an additional 3,700 ...
The United States and Qatar announced a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, pausing the devastating 15-month war in ...
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk has described the unbearable suffering of former detainees under the deposed Assad ...
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...
A Seattle City Council committee approved the use of a limited number of so-called "less lethal" weapons by t Police Department, deployed primarily to control crowd movement ...
The United Nations human rights chief called for Western sanctions on Syria to be lifted, now that dictator Bashar Assad has ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed ...
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (AFP) - United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was "crucial" for ...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk visited the notorious Sednaya prison near Damascus, describing it as ...
On Jan. 15, 2009, all 155 people aboard US Airways Flight 1549 escaped serious injury when pilot Chesley Sullenberger gently ...
The inauguration of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro left his opponents grappling with mixed feelings of hope and ...