Volker Turk’s description of West Bank situation as ‘apartheid’ marks first time a UN human rights chief has used term.

Israel says Volker Türk's office makes "absurd" accusations in a report that details what the UN calls "systemic ...

Report says Israeli settlers and Palestinians residing in territory are treated 'under two distinct bodies of law and ...

The comment follows the release of UN report documenting Israel's intensifying 'discrimination' against Palestinians ...

The UN report condemns Israel’s systematic discrimination in the occupied West Bank, highlighting segregation, illegal ...

The United Nations said Israel’s decades-long discrimination against Palestinians in the West Bank has worsened sharply, ...

What’s the book’s premise? Apartheid was a state system of racial oppression in South Africa initiated when the National Party came to power in 1948. It lasted formally until 1994. While we know much ...

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Over the last few weeks there has been an understandable focus on downsides to a plurality electoral system, such as whether they are biased. In the context of the United Kingdom, most of the focus ...

"This is a particularly severe form of racial discrimination and segregation, that resembles the kind of apartheid system we ...

Rights chief Volker Turk says there is “a systematic asphyxiation of the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank,” creating a “particularly severe form of racial discrimination and segregation, that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HERZLIYA, Israel (AP) — A former head of ...