Volker Turk

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the decision of Israel to order a "full siege" of Gaza,

United Nations said in a report that hundreds of thousands of people are being trafficked by criminal gangs and forced to work in scam centres.

As many as 100 people, including many children, were killed in an air raid by Myanmar's military in Sagaing Region's Kanbalu Township.

Govinda Prasad Sharma Koirala, Advisor to the Prime Minister on Peace and Human Rights, met with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on the sidelines of the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council, in Geneva today.

The Human Rights Council has created a fact-finding mission, related to the protests in Iran that began