Africa: As 2016 Draws to a Close, UN Rights Chief Outlines Enormity of Challenges to Human Rights

30 November 2016

Highlighting the challenges to human rights around the world, the United Nations human rights chief called on the international community to act collectively for the common good and to do "everything possible" to prevent the situation from deteriorating.

Pounded by accelerating bombardment, deliberately deprived of food and medical care, many of them - including small children - report that they are simply waiting for death: a nightmare which clearly violates the most basic norms of human rights and any shred of human decency.High Commissioner Zeid, on Syria

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