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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, says that a projected imminent famine in war-torn Gaza "can and must be prevented". In a recorded statement, he warns that Israel's restrictions on the entry of aid and its ongoing attacks "may amount to the use of starvation as a method of war, which is a war crime". SOUNDBITE
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk decries the lack of accountability for the 2020 Beirut port blast, urging an international probe into the massive explosion that destroyed swathes of the city, in a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council. "It may therefore be time to consider an international fact-finding mission to look into human rights violations related to this tragedy," says Volker Türk. SOUNDBITE
"We do not need more warnings. The dystopian future is already here," UN right chief Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council during the opening its the 54th session in Geneva. Climate change is sparking human rights emergencies in many countries, the UN rights chief added, also decrying widespread "nonchalance" to surging deaths of migrants. SOUNDBITE
Hopes of a return to democracy in junta-ruled Myanmar are being crushed by "systematic repression", United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday at a summit in Indonesia with the United States, China and regional leaders. SOUNDBITE
UN rights chief Volker Turk says Russia's war in Ukraine is "tugging us away from the work of building solutions, the work of ensuring our survival." Speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council, Turk denounced horrific abuses carried out since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine 13 months ago. SOUNDBITE
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