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This is a time of seismic global shocks, with conflicts battering the lives of millions of civilians and carving ever deeper fault-lines across and between nations, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned at the opening of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. OHCHR / UNTV CH

In conflicts across the world, nations and their governments are ignoring “the rule of law and the rules of war” enshrined in the Geneva Conventions and the UN Charter, an alarming development highlighted by United Nations chief António Guterres at the opening of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. UNTV CH

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 following comment on last night’s bombardment and ground operations in Gaza by Israeli forces was made by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Saturday, 28 October in Geneva, Switzerland. OHCHR

Floods, droughts and extreme temperatures continued to be the norm during the month of August. UNIFEED

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the adoption in Uganda of draconian new legislation targeting lesbian, gay and bisexual people was devastating and deeply disturbing, and called on President Yoweri Museveni not to promulgate it into law. OHCHR

At the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council, High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, said the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) “is a tragedy, above all, for the Palestinian people” UNTV CH

High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk conducted an official mission to Venezuela, at the invitation of the Government. OHCHR

In a world characterized by nationalism, power competition, and inequality “we face need for global solutions, and global solutions must be multilateral,” the President of the Club de Madrid, Danilo Türk, told journalists in New York. UNIFEED

General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft said the process in selecting a new Secretary-General this year was “game changing.” UNIFEED-UNTV