The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was "crucial" for Syria after the fall of ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...

UNICEF has warned that hundreds of children in Syria continue to suffer the brutal impact of unexploded ordnance ...

In the last nine years, at least 422,000 incidents involving unexploded ordnance – or UXO - were reported in 14 governorates ...

In the first visit ever by a U.N. rights commissioner to Damascus, Turk met with the head of Syria's new administration, ...

Mohammad Reza Ra’ouf Sheibani, the Iranian foreign minister’s special representative for Syrian affairs, emphasized the ...

The market for human trafficking in Syria is pervasive, with the country ranked as among the worst in the world for human ...

A cease-fire announced Wednesday will end the 15-month war between Hamas and Israel and includes the eventual release of all ...

While the world waits to see how Syria's new leadership will govern the war-torn country, Canadian International Development ...

The director of the UN World Food Program warned that some governments resist calls to boost funds for urgent humanitarian ...

A high-ranking member of the Islamic State militant group in Syria has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Germany, partly for alleged involvement in the genocide against the ...