"OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR"

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stressed the urgent need for a moratorium on the sale and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems that pose a serious risk to human rights until adequate safeguards are put in place. She also called for AI applications that cannot be used in compliance with international human rights law to be banned. UNTV CH

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday updated the UN Human Rights Council on the grave human rights situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.She warned that the conflict risks spilling over to the whole Horn of Africa. UNTV CH

Afghanistan has entered a new and perilous phase, with many Afghans profoundly concerned for their human rights, particularly women, and ethnic and religious communities, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said. OHCHR

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) said peaceful protesters across various provinces in Afghanistan over the past four weeks have faced an increasingly violent response by the Taliban, including the use of live ammunition, batons and whips. UNTV CH

A Spokesperson for the UN human rights office said that the attack near Kabul’s airport is “a hideous assault on desperate civilians, and we hope those responsible are caught and brought to justice as soon as possible.” UNTV CH

During a Human Rights Council special session on “the serious human rights concerns and situation in Afghanistan,” the High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Council members to establish a dedicated mechanism to closely monitor the evolving human rights situation in Afghanistan. UNTV CH

The people of Beirut need to see accountability for the deepening crisis they have faced after the devastating port blasts in the Lebanese capital 12 months ago, the UN’s top rights official said Tuesday. UNTV CH

High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet today called on Cuban authorities “to promptly release all those who have been detained for exercising their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, or freedom of opinion and expression.” OHCHR

The UN human rights office is “deeply alarmed at the latest developments in Belarus, where on Wednesday (14 Jul) the security forces carried out dozens of raids on the offices and homes of human rights activists and journalists, and a number of people were reported to have been detained,” said a spokesperson. OHCHR

Briefing reporters in Geneva, a UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) official said, “We can, and should, make the internet a safer place, but it doesn’t need to be at the expense of fundamental rights.” UNTV CH