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2025-07-27 22:19
UN rights chief warns governments may be complicit in “international crimes” if they don’t pressure
The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, has urged governments around the world to pressure Israel to end its assault on Gaza – and said those that don’t use their “leverage” may be complicit in “international crimes”, the Guardian reported.
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2025-06-17 18:31
By Wesam Bahrani
Occupation regime kills 45 Gazans seeking food
TEHRAN – Dozens of Palestinians have been killed and many others injured while attempting to access food in Gaza.
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2025-02-24 21:55
Global consensus on human rights is crumbling, UN rights chief says
The UN human rights chief on Monday warned that a system of global protections built in the decades after World War Two has never before been under so much strain, calling for an effort to reinforce it or risk suffering the atrocities of the past.
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2024-06-18 21:59
UN: Situation in West Bank drastically deteriorating
The United Nations human rights chief on Tuesday warned that the rights situation in the West Bank is rapidly deteriorating, while there had been "unconscionable death and suffering" in Gaza.
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2024-05-12 20:08
By Matin Jamshidi
Congressional threats against ICC are horrible
Moves to protect Netanyahu, criminal-in-chief, from ICC justice send shockwaves across the world
TEHRAN - House Republicans are preparing legislation to sanction International Criminal Court officials as a "precaution" against potential arrest warrants against Israeli officials for the war in the Gaza Strip, according to Axios.
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2024-04-30 22:25
UN rights chief “troubled” by crackdown
The UN human rights chief says he’s “troubled” by heavy-handed tactics by US police during attempts to break up pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.
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2023-12-09 00:25
UN human rights chief says situation in Gaza is 'apocalyptic'
Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has told France 24 that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is "apocalyptic".
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2023-11-09 23:22
UN rights chief: Collective punishment in Gaza ‘amounts to war crime’
Israel's attacks hit children’s hospital in Gaza
The United Nations human rights chief has warned that Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip “amounts to a war crime” as the Tel Aviv regime continues its deadly bombing campaign on the besieged enclave.