Gizmodo: 'A Wake Up Call': The World Needs to Prepare for Massive Crop Failure https://gizmodo.com/study-world-needs-to-prepare-for-massive-crop-failure-1850605691 #effectsofclimatechangeonagriculture #climatechangeintheunitedstates #climatechange #kaikornhuber #environment #volkerturk #jetstream #metoffice #wind

#VolkerTürk: the man charged with protecting the world’s #HumanRights. “…the trickiest of jobs in an era marked by widespread concern over authoritarian governments, the climate crisis, protracted conflicts, invasive digital tools & …cost-of-living crisis.…Türk is particularly worried about…flouting of international humanitarian law…set out in the Geneva conventions. | Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jan/05/volker-turk-un-worlds-human-rights #China #Uyghurs #Russia

#VolkerTürk: the man charged with protecting the world’s human rights | United Nations | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jan/05/volker-turk-un-worlds-human-rights #China #Uyghurs

Nach dem grausamen Mord an dem bekannten LGBTI-Aktivisten #EdwinChiloba aus #Kenia fordert der UN-Menschenrechtsbeauftragte #VolkerTürk weltweit einen besseren Schutz für queere Menschen
https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=44291

‘UN Human Rights Chief #VolkerTürk today called for a coordinated regional approach to protect… #Rohingya who risk their lives by undertaking perilous sea voyages. “More than 2,400 Rohingya have sought to leave #Bangladesh and #Myanmar in 2022 alone, and…over 200 have reportedly lost their lives on the way. Recent reports indicate that overcrowded and unsafe boats carrying Rohingyas have been left to drift for days on end without any help,” said Türk.’ | OHCHR https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/12/turk-urges-coordinated-approach-save-rohingya-sea

UN human rights chief says #UK should rethink plans to deport #asylum seekers to #Rwanda. ‘In his first public comments on the controversy since taking office two months ago, #VolkerTürk rejected prime minister Rishi Sunak’s description of the £140m deal as “common sense”, saying that as well as being legally and ethically problematic it was also “very costly” and unlikely to work.’ | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/21/un-human-rights-chief-uk-deport-asylum-seekers-rwanda

UN human rights chief calls on Musk to respect free speech

Volker Türk, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, sent an open letter to Musk last month urging him to place human rights at the center of his management of Twitter.

#UnitedNations #UN #ElonMusk #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #Twitter #VolkerTürk
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3780219-un-human-rights-chief-calls-on-musk-to-respect-free-speech/

#Ukraine
#UNHumanRights
chief
#volkerturk
presenting latest evidence of summary executions, possible war crimes by #Russia. Deplores fact that 'my Office could not identify any case in which a member of Russian armed forces – soldier or commander in rank – was held accountable'

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights #VolkerTürk is in #Ukraine 4-7 December visiting Kyiv, Kharkiv, Izium and Uzhhorod & meeting with senior national and local Government officials and civil society, & representatives of victims’ groups, including relatives of missing or captured civilians and prisoners of war. He will hold a news conference in Kyiv on 7 December at approx 13h00 local time. Access limited to accredited media. More details at https://www.ohchr.org/en/media-advisories/2022/11/un-human-rights-chief-visit-ukraine-4-7-december

“Myanmar's military-installed government has sentenced more critics to death, bringing the total to 139, and is using capital punishment as a tool to crush opposition, according to the UN high commissioner for human rights.” ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-03/un-human-rights-chief-decries-new-myanmar-death-sentences/101730968 #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #UNHCHR #VolkerTürk

“Myanmar's military-installed government has sentenced more critics to death, bringing the total to 139, and is using capital punishment as a tool to crush opposition, according to the UN high commissioner for human rights.” ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-03/un-human-rights-chief-decries-new-myanmar-death-sentences/101730968 #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #UNHCHR #VolkerTürk

RT @TibetCollective@twitter.com

Writing in a letter Thursday to #VolkerTurk, @UN_HRC@twitter.com Senator Jeff Merkley & Representative @RepMcGovern@twitter.com, said around 80 percent of #Tibetan children are now being sent to #Chinese boarding schools where they are taught a “highly politicized curriculum.”

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TibetCollective/status/1598559575002972160

NYT profile of the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights #VolkerTürk: ‘A major test of Mr. Türk’s effectiveness will be what he does to follow up on the report [of] his predecessor..that found #China might have committed crimes against humanity in repressing Uyghur and other Muslims in…#Xinjiang… Mr. Türk…considers the document meticulously researched and important. “…I’m invested in it, he said…’
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/24/world/europe/volker-turk-un-human-rights.html

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights #VolkerTürk has called for the release of blogger & activist #AlaaAbdElFattah, whose life is reportedly at imminent risk after a seven-month hunger strike while imprisoned in Wadi El Natrun. See statement at OHCHR ow.ly/xCEr50LxsFl. Also see #IFEX https://ifex.org/faces/alaa-abd-el-fattah/