UN rights chief

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. File Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

Regulating online hate speech 'not censorship': UN rights chief

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk at the 57th session of the Human Rights Council. Photo: OHCHR
Bangladesh

Bangladesh student movement carried human rights as its torch: UN rights chief

FILE PHOTO: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 19, 2024. REUTERS/Cristina Chiquin/File Photo
Middle East

UN rights chief calls on states to challenge Israel over occupation

FILE PHOTO: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Guatemala City, Guatemala July 19, 2024. REUTERS/Cristina Chiquin/File Photo
World+Biz

UN rights chief calls for repeal of Afghan law turning women into 'shadows'

People work to move into a cemetery bodies of Palestinians killed during Israel's military offensive and buried at Nasser hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

UN rights chief 'horrified' by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals

Rohingya refugees walk towards Cox's Bazar fleeing from military oppression in Myanmar. File Photo: Reuters
Rohingya Crisis

No prospect of safe, sustainable return of Rohingyas: UN rights chief

Political goodwill of Bangladesh important to counter climate change: UN rights chief 
Economy

Political goodwill of Bangladesh important to counter climate change: UN rights chief 

Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet in city

Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: BBC
South Asia

Suu Kyi’s trial set to start in Myanmar, junta rejects UN rights chief’s statement

FILE PHOTO: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, September 9, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
South Asia

Myanmar security forces must stop 'vicious crackdown': UN rights chief

Write Mushtaq Ahmed. Photo: Collected.
Bangladesh

UN rights chief for transparent probe into writer Mushtaq’s death, review of DSA