Volker Tuerk has spent many years working for the UN refugee agency and if confirmed would succeed Michelle Bachelet, an outspoken critic of Israel's human rights record

Report calls for urgent international response over allegations of torture, other rights violations in Beijing's treatment of Muslim Uyghurs population

Outgoing head Bachelet blasts Jerusalem for denial of visas to staffers; Israel pans her for 'once again attacking' in final hours in office

Outgoing human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says her office is 'trying' to meet self-imposed deadline for long-awaited report on China's alleged abuses in region

Michelle Bachelet says 17 minors among the dead in recent Gaza fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad, many of whom IDF believes were killed by rocket misfires

Instead of thorough probe into alleged abuses, rights advocates fear Michelle Bachelet will get stage-managed tour including in troubled Xinjiang region; US says 'no expectations'

Bachelet says executions may be related to the ongoing conflict against Iran-backed Houthis and to attempts to silence 'freedom of expression and peaceful assembly'

In letter to UN rights chief, Washington says an invasion could lead to 'kidnappings or torture' of 'political dissidents and religious and ethnic minorities'

Sheikha Latifa, who last year said she feared for her life, meets with rights chief Michelle Bachelet, expresses 'her wish for respect for her privacy'

Former senior United Nations officials and Nobel prize winners call for investigation into killings of some 30,000 detainees, with Iranian president among alleged perpetrators