Geneva: The United Nations chief warned on Monday that human rights were being “suffocated” worldwide, even for wars and violence, as well as autocrats crushing the opposition and trampling of international law.
“Human rights are the oxygen of humanity,” said the United Nations Chief, Antonio Guterres, to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
“But one by one, human rights are suffocating,” he said, adding: “By autocrats, crushing the opposition because they fear what a truly empowered people would do. Basic rights.”
Meanwhile, the warmongers “fold their nose in international law, international humanitarian law and the UN letter,” he said, while wars and violence were stripping people “of their right to food, water and water Education “.
Guterres also pointed out the impact of “a morally global financial system on bankruptcy”, and “fugitive technologies such as artificial intelligence that maintain a great promise, but also the ability to violate human rights just by touching a button.”
He highlighted “increasing intolerance against entire groups, from indigenous peoples, to migrants and refugees”, as well as “voices of division and anger that human rights see not as a blessing for humanity, but as a barrier to power, profits and profits and The control control seeks. “
All combined, “this represents a direct threat to all mechanisms and systems of harsh cattle in the last 80 years to protect and advance in human rights,” he warned.
