The UN rights chief expressed deep concern on Monday ( Mar 3 ) over Donald Trump’s “fundamental shift” in direction and decried the “unchecked power” of “unelected tech oligarchs.”
Volker Turk addressed the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, expressing the country’s most vehement condemnation of the new upheaval in the US.
” Over the past several years, we have had bipartisan support from the United States of America in the area of human right,” he said before adding,” I am now deeply concerned by the underlying shift in direction that is occurring both domestically and internationally.”
He claimed, without naming Trump, that “policies intended to protect individuals from bias are now labelled as unfair.”
” Gender justice is being reversed,” the report states. Disinformation, harassment, and threats, particularly against reporters and public officials, run the risk of undermining the efforts of independent media and the operation of corporations.
Turk added that “divisive language is being used to confuse, polarize, and distort.”
He warned that” this is causing fear and anxiety among many.”
Since Washington has announced it will no more communicate with the government, no US agent was present for Turk’s conversation.
That figure included a number of executive orders that Trump has signed since returning to the White House on January 20 on problems ranging from trans right to foreign policy.