GENEVA: The UN rights chief voiced alarm Friday at the normalization of the use of force to resolve disputes, warning that conflicts create “a human rights wasteland.” “We must not revert to violence as an organizing principle,” Volker Turk said as he provided an update on rights situations around the world to the United Nations Human Rights Council. “The world cannot stand by as the edifice of international humanitarian and human rights law is dismantled before our eyes.”

GENEVA: The UN rights chief voiced alarm Friday at the normalization of the use of force to resolve disputes, warning that conflicts create “a human rights wasteland.” “We must…

GENEVA: The United Nations’ rights chief deplored Saturday’s strikes in the Middle East and urged all parties to return to negotiations, saying attacks would only result in…

'As always, in any armed conflict, it is civilians who end up paying the ultimate price,' UN rights chief Volker Turk cautioned. 'Bombs and missiles are not the way to resolve…