Challenges for the new UN Human Rights chief

Send us a text This week on the Inside Geneva podcast, host Imogen Foulkes has an in-depth conversation with Volker Türk, the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “I have had a lifelong commitment to the human rights cause,” says Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, about what attracted him to a job some call the UN’s toughest. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75 in 2023. Where do we stand? “We’re losing the essence of what the Universal Declaration ...