“Our future depends on our joint commitment to defend every person’s rights, every time, everywhere,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council: Accountability is needed, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as anywhere else. Impunity kills, it must stop.

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“Our future depends on our joint commitment to defend every person’s rights, every time, everywhere,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights @‌volker_turk tells the @‌UN_HRC. Accountability is needed, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as anywhere else. Impunity kills, it must stop. Full statement: https://ohchr.org/en/statements- 

Mr. President of the Human Rights Council, 
Mr. Secretary-General, 
Excellencies,

A fierce competition for power, control and resources is playing out on the world stage at a rate and intensity unseen for the past 80 years.

People are feeling unmoored, anxious and insecure.

The gears of global power are shifting; the consequences are not clear.

Some are signalling the end of the world order as we know it.

But today, I want to talk about another world order.

One that is organised from the ground up, and that is unshakeable.

A foundational system of how people relate to each other, based on our inherent worth, our hopes, and our common values.

I am referring to people’s pursuit of dignity, equality, and justice.

This quest is innate to what makes us human: to be free, to be heard, and to have our basic needs met.... READ MORE  https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2026/02/high-commissioner-turk-opens-human-rights-council-peoples-pursuit

AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES (or quotes) IN FULL: HELP SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and conversations) THAT EMPOWER DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE & PEACE... and hopefully Palestine, or at least fair and just laws and policies]