The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, warned on Monday that the world is facing what he described as a “flagrant and unprecedented attack” at the level of the human rights system. This was during the opening of the sixty-second session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Turk said that the path of human rights has witnessed, throughout its history, progress interspersed with setbacks, stressing that the general trend remains […] The post The United Nations calls for the protection of basic rights amid escalating international crises appeared first on Hespress - Hespress is a Moroccan electronic newspaper.