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I am very concerned about the rise in ethnic-based hate speech and incitement to violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, particularly in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu as well as...

GENEVA (28 December 2023) – A UN report released today details the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, after 7 October 2023, and calls on...

We are gravely concerned about the continued bombardment of Middle Gaza by Israeli forces, which has claimed more than 100 Palestinian lives since Christmas Eve. It is particularly concerning that...

I am very alarmed by recurring reports of widespread abuses and violations of human rights in recent days amid fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Wad...

GENEVA (19 December 2023) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said today he feared for the rapidly increasing number of civilians in Gaza increasingly corralled towards the border with Egypt, as...

Mr President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Peace is not a word that I hear very often these days. The situation in Ukraine has been added to a litany of continuous suffering, and the world’s...

GENEVA (15 December 2023) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today hailed Chile’s Supreme Court judgement on Operation Condor – a notorious campaign coordinated among South America’s...

Twenty-five years ago, this Assembly adopted the Declaration on Human rights defenders, recognizing the key role of activists, peacebuilders, and civil society groups to “translate” global human...

Excellencies, Colleagues, Friends, First, my thanks to all of you. It is incredible what you have done: our panellists; our participants, ranging from Heads of State, Heads of Government, Ministers...