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The UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture — Annual Grants Map 2025

A pathway to compassion | #StandUp4Migrants

“We need more human rights:” Türk appeals for more much-needed resources to protect human rights

OHCHR Report 2024

Photography 4 Humanity: A Lens on Climate Justice

Restoring women's dignity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kyrgyzstan’s vibrant civil society fights for human rights

Ukraine: Devastating impact of hostilities on children’s rights

Seeking justice for state violence in Mexico

Her Rights, Our Future, Right Now

Defending ancestral lands: the Garifuna struggle in Honduras

Minority art contest explores belonging, place and loss

Faith-based cooperation is vital to uphold human rights

Championing a more inclusive, compassionate approach around migration

In DRC, mobile courts fight impunity and bring dignity to victims

Migrants’ rights are fundamental human rights

Training police helps safeguard human rights in Liberia’s elections

Nothing Is Impossible - Driving Change in Moldova

Kindness Beyond Boundaries

HC Volker Türk Q&A on Human Rights Day 2024

Human Rights Day 2024: Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now

Death penalty does not lead to justice

Ukraine: Worsening impact on civilians of Russia’s attack, torture of prisoners of war

Report on Human Rights situation in Myanmar

Sudan: This tragedy needs to end, now, urges Deputy High Commissioner

Afghanistan can advance rights – or spiral deeper into failure, Türk says

Human Rights are our mainstay against unbridled power

Nicaragua: UN report highlights continued human rights violations and erosion of civic and democratic spaces

Mexico’s disappeared: Love and pain drives the search for the disappeared people

Libya: UN report urges accountability for years of human rights violations in Tarhuna

#IndigenousPeoples have the right to live uncontacted or in voluntary isolation

Racism and AI: “Bias from the past leads to bias in the future”

Transforming Care Systems

Myanmar: a breakneck speed “disintegration of human rights,” says High Commissioner

UN Human Rights’ 2023 results: Valued milestones amidst persistent crises

Türk's message for HRC56

Support UN Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Human rights must shape AI, a game-changer for sustainable development

Türk's message for IDAHOBIT

What's at stake in the 2024 elections?

The death penalty is incompatible with right to life

Press freedom in Central America: Silence is not an option

Mexican actor Diego Luna and director Santiago Maza advocate for the right to freedom of expression

World Press Freedom Day Podcast

World Press Freedom Day

Türk on Threats to Environmental Rights Defenders

30 years on, South Africa still dismantling racism and apartheid’s legacy

“Woman, Life, Freedom” survivors want to end State impunity in Iran

Reflecting on the journey towards equality

Türk calls for a future without hate

“We must not fail our children" - Volker Türk

IWD2024: “We don’t need saving, we just need the space”

Türk's Women's Day Message

Türk's Global Update to the Human Rights Council

Türk's report on Sudan

Türk on Myanmar's human rights situation

Volker Türk calls for end to "carnage" in Gaza

Volker Türk's opens Human Rights Council

A path to social justice

Serbia's Crvena Zvezda: A Roma Victory Against Eviction

#StandUp4Migrants

Recalling the Holocaust, Türk calls for an end to Antisemitism & racism

Young human rights educators inspire peers to take action

Changemakers: Stories of Young Human Rights Educators

2023 UN Human Rights Prize

Human Rights 75 Pledges

Human Rights 75 Volker Türk's message to leaders

Volker Türk's opening at the Human Rights High Level Event

Volker Türk's message for Human Rights Day

#Act4RightsNow: Fill Out Our Survey.

Link between humans and the environment must be preserved

Climate change, pollution threaten Iraq’s ancient marshes

Darien Gap: a risky path in search of a safer life

Promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in business

Statement by UN Human Rights Chief on Israel and the OPT

UN Human Rights Chief visits Rafah border crossing with Gaza

UN Human Rights Chief travels to the Middle East in context of conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

UN Human Rights Chief condemns rise in hatred

Gaza: Continued violence is not the answer

Human Rights 75 Countdown

Israel/OPT: Türk urges humanitarian ceasefire

Latest: Occupied Palestinian Territory/Israel

Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Street children are victims

Myanmar

Human rights are key to ensuring no one is left behind

OHCHR and the right to development

Children’s voices must be heard on climate crisis - GC 26

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#HumanRights75 Countdown

Iran – Concerns over Chastity and Hijab Bill

End overreliance on punitive measures to address drugs problem – UN report

Strong leadership & political will crucial to ensure reparatory justice for people of African descent – UN report

Not Too Young To Run Campaign - Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth

Nicaragua: Continued and widespread deterioration of human rights

Sudan: Türk says conflict must stop before it is too late to pull the country back from disaster

Afghanistan: Human rights in ‘state of collapse,’ warns Türk

Trial monitoring to protect the right to a fair trial

World Humanitarian Day: Their fighting spirit has stayed with us

Afghanistan: Second anniversary of Taliban takeover

UN Human Rights Chief ends visit to Iraq

Advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples

Human rights, prevention and peace

Indigenous Peoples can lead us through the turbulence of our era, Türk says

Türk urges Govts to combat "weaponization of religious differences"

Myanmar in “deadly freefall” into even deeper violence, says Türk

“We’re here to tell it:” Mexican women break silence over femicides

Türk urges action on climate crisis at UN Human Rights Council – now

Türk urges zero tolerance for gender-based violence at UN Human Rights Council

Türk urges solidarity in face of gender equality backlash

Mapping and addressing threats to civic space online

Human rights ensure all spaces are accessible to women in all their diversity

Türk calls for an end to the “sea of suffering” in Sudan

“Don’t give in:” Veteran rights activist urges younger generations

Shaping digital technologies that empower people to build their lives

Know the past to change the present

Türk pledges solidarity with LGBTIQ+ activists

State and community action needed to achieve racial justice

Sudan Crisis Update: Turk's message to UN Human Rights Council

Journalism may be our only hope to secure human rights.

Journalists must be protected from violence & harassment

World Press Freedom Day: HC message

South Sudan

Türk's discussion on Human Rights Economy

Human Rights Economy

Türk on climate change opinion from International Court of Justice

#FightRacism

HC Global update at Human Rights Council

Human Rights 75 Initiative

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