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Following his visit to the Rafah crossing, in Egypt, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, in Cairo said, “in Rafah I have witnessed the gates to a living nightmare.” OHCHR

The United Nations Human Rights spokesperson Marta Hurtado said, “We are deeply disappointed that a referendum on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the First Peoples of Australia did not pass.” OHCHR

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said “Words fail me. Tonight, hundreds of people were killed – horrifically – in a massive strike at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, including patients, healthcare workers, and families that had been seeking refuge in and around the hospital.” OHCHR

With military operations showing no signs of abating in Gaza and with the continued siege on food, fuel and water, UN humanitarians kept up their call on Tuesday for urgent and unimpeded access to enable aid delivery to the civilian population to prevent further suffering. UNTV CH

Human rights spokesperson Liz Throssell said “the appalling scenes from the village of Hroza in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine underscores once again the terrible price civilians are paying 20 months after Russia’s invasion.” UNTV CH

The UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence said that the arrest, detention, and sentencing of human rights defenders in Viet Nam who advocate for the environment and the country’s transition to clean-energy use raises serious concerns “not only with respect to the charges leveled against them but also the conduct of their trials.” UNTV CH

A new UN report focused on reparatory justice for people of African descent urged States to show strong leadership and political will in tackling the lasting consequences of enslavement, the trade in enslaved Africans, and colonialism. OHCHR

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said, “I am deeply saddened by the continued and widespread deterioration of human rights in Nicaragua. Punishing and locking out those who voice their views, and further intensifying the country's isolation, are policies that do not serve the interests of the Nicaraguan people – or even the authorities.” UNTV CH

Addressing the Human Rights Council, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said, “Human rights in Afghanistan are in a state of collapse, acutely affecting the lives of millions of women, men, girls, and boys.” UNTV CH

Top UN-appointed independent rights experts maintained at the UN Human Rights Council that serious international crimes continue to be inflicted against the people in Myanmar by the country’s military junta and affiliate militias, while armed conflict has intensified substantially. UNTV CH