Doing what's right is 'not a spectator sport', Human Rights Council warned

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Even technology - and especially artificial intelligence - is increasingly being used to "suppress rights, deepen inequality and expose marginalized people to new forms of discrimination both online and offline", the world's top diplomat warned, before urging a renewed commitment to the values of multilateral solidarity set out in the UN Charter.
49% : " Expanding on that theme, UN rights chief Türk said that at a time when some governments were weakening the multilateral system, violations of international law needed to be called out, "regardless of the perpetrators". To confront today's "top-down domination", the High Commissioner noted the upcoming launch of his Office's Global Alliance for Human Rights, bringing together States, businesses, cities, philanthropists, scientists, artists, philosophers, young people and civil society.
48% : In his last speech to the Council as UN Secretary-General before his second five-year term ends on 31 December, Mr. Guterres reiterated his long-held concerns about the drivers of insecurity and inequality which had left migrants "harassed, arrested and expelled", refugees scapegoated and LGBTIQ+ communities vilified.
47% : "It is more than past time to end the bloodshed", he insisted, his comments a precursor to those of UN human rights chief Volker Türk, who called for rights and justice to be the focus of any ceasefire or peace agreement.
44% : On Ukraine, specifically, the UN chief noted that Tuesday 24 February will be the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has killed more than 15,000 civilians.
42% : In Geneva, delegates from more than 120 countries gathered on Monday to mark 20 years of the UN Human Rights Council and a shared commitment to international law, amid runaway global instability, wars and resurgent conflict.
40% : Echoing those concerns, President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock insisted that human rights were "not a spectator sport" for Members of the Council, ambassadors, ministers or UN officials, for whom "silence is a choice...and it has consequences".

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