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“We need to stand firm on the promise of human rights,” Türk tells Italian Senate Committee

25 January 2024

DELIVERED BY

Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

AT

the Italian Senate’s Extraordinary Committee for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

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1.        Pathways for peace평화로의 길

->유엔과 세계은행이  지구촌 국제분쟁을 효과적으로 대처하고 방지하기 위해 최초로 공동 집필한 평화보고서 ‘평화로의 길: 분쟁 예방을 위한 포용적 접근

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I am grateful for the opportunity to speak with this Extraordinary Committee at a time of great urgency and turmoil across the world.

Conflicts are multiplying, and they are driving human rights violations, displacement, hunger and humanitarian needs to new peaks.

Across the world – in Ukraine; in Sudan and the Sahel; in Myanmar; and in dozens of other conflicts – tens of thousands of civilians have been killed, this month alone. Many more people have been wounded, perhaps permanently. Still more have been forced to flee their homes.

Tensions are rising at the world's most acute flashpoints. Most recently, since the horrific attacks by Hamas in Israel on 7 October, Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza has caused unprecedented levels of civilian killings and starvation, with wholescale destruction of essential infrastructure. That conflict is also affecting other countries across the region -- and the longer it continues, the greater the risk that an even more massive conflagration will take place. In the Western Balkans and elsewhere, there are also very real threats that dormant conflicts will erupt into violence. It appears that warmongering is becoming an acceptable feature of the political landscape.

There is no true security in any part of the world when conflict is raging – or simmering – on the scale that we are seeing today.

In tandem, the global development agenda, which promised to end extreme poverty by the end of this decade, is faltering. Nearly half the world's population live in countries whose governments spend more on debt than education or health – a burden that is fuelled by dysfunction in our international financial infrastructure.

Racism and other forms of discrimination – notably against women and girls – are again rising, with digital platforms becoming delivery systems for hate speech, and concerted efforts – often in the name of culture or tradition – to push back against the significant progress made in recent decades.

The civic space in more and more countries is being suffocated by harsh restrictions that undercut justice, free and independent media, as well as the space for democracy and participation.

And all these trends compound and fuel the accelerating, overwhelming threats of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, a triple planetary crisis that may well be the defining human rights threat of our generation.

But instead of coming together to address these questions with unity of purpose and decisive, cooperative leadership, the multilateral system – and many societies – are becoming more polarized, and more divided. 

This is a dire political and economic landscape. It is a human rights emergency.  I am convinced that your work can be of great importance in the struggle to sustain and advance solutions to all these challenges – because to be effective, those solutions need to be grounded in human rights.

In 2018, the ground-breaking Pathways for Peace studies demonstrated very clearly that unaddressed grievances, such as discrimination, inequalities and exclusion, drive tensions, which fuel conflicts, which lead to displacement – and further cycles of misery and destabilisation. Other powerful drivers of conflict include corruption, various forms of poor governance and government malfeasance.

To resolve conflict; to sustain peace; and to create sustainable and green development, these root causes have to be addressed and resolved.