Global consensus on human rights is crumbling–UN
FILE PHOTO: A man walks past the headquarters of the United Nations building in Midtown Manhattan in New York, on June 28, 2024. —AFP
GENEVA—The UN human rights chief on Monday warned that a system of global protections built in the decades after World War II has never before been under so much strain, calling for an effort to reinforce it or risk suffering the atrocities of the past.
“The global consensus on human rights is crumbling under the weight of authoritarians, strongmen and oligarchs,” United Nations High Commissioner Volker Turk told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
“We need an all-out effort by everyone, to make sure that human rights and the rule of law remain foundational to communities, societies and international relations. Otherwise, the picture is very dangerous,” he said.
