Geneva: The United Nations Head warned on Monday that human rights were “stifled” worldwide, including by wars and violence as well as autocrats who crush the opposition and trampling of international law .
“Human rights are the oxygen of humanity,” said United Nations, Antonio Guterres, to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
“But one by one, human rights are suffocated,” he said, adding: “by the autocrats, crushing the opposition because they fear what a truly authoritarian people would do. Fundamental rights. “”
The Warmongrs “their nose nose to international law, international humanitarian law and the Charter of the United Nations,” he said, while wars and violence was of people “of their right to food, to water and education “.
Guterres also underlined the impact of a “morally in bankrupt global financial system” and “fleeing technologies such as artificial intelligence which are very promising, but also the ability to violate human rights in contact with A button “.
He underlined “an increasing intolerance against whole groups – from indigenous peoples to migrants and refugees”, as well as “voices of division and anger which consider human rights not as a boon of humanity, But as an obstacle to power, in favor and control they seek “.
All combined: “This represents a direct threat to all the mechanisms and systems harshly won over the past 80 years to protect and advance human rights,” he warned.
