GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief on Thursday appealed for $500 million in extra-budgetary resources for 2025 to support the monitoring and investigation of human rights abuses around the world from Syria to Sudan.

UN High Commissioner Volker Turk calls for $500 million funding by 2025 to address human rights globally. He highlights past achievements and stresses the need for collaboration among governments, private sectors,

The United Nations (UN) rights chief said Thursday his office would need US$500 million on top of its regular budget to help face towering rights challenges around the world this year. "Lives are at stake if we don'

Volker Turk the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has launched an appeal to raise USD 500 million for 2025 to address global human rights needs

The U.N. human rights chief has requested $500 million in funding for 2025 to address ongoing global rights abuses, highlighting the critical need amid persistent financial shortfalls. With current cuts in U.

The U.N. human rights chief appealed on Thursday for $500 million in funding for 2025 to support its work such as investigating human rights abuses around the world

The United Nations' top human rights official said on Friday that diversity was not a threat and should be treasured, in comments that appeared aimed at Donald Trump over the U.S. president's campaign against diversity,

United Nations High Commissioner ... rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and association,” Türk said. The UN stated on its website that the 2,400 detained included demonstrators ...

“As the Sudanese Armed Forces [SAF] and Rapid Support Forces [RSF] battle for control at all costs in the senseless war that [has] raged for close to two years now, direct and ethnically motivated attacks on civilians are becoming increasingly common,” he said in a statement.

The United Nations human rights chief on Thursday appealed for $500 million in extra-budgetary resources for 2025 to support the monitoring and investigation of human rights abuses around the world from Syria to Sudan.

GENEVA, 30th January, 2025 (WAM) -- Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has launched an appeal to raise $500 million for 2025 to address global human rights needs.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk launched a USD 500 million appeal for 2025 on Thursday, stressing the