Tue Feb 25 08:47:33 UTC 2025: ## UN Rights Chief Warns of Potential Rise of Dictatorships
**Geneva, February 25, 2025** – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, issued a stark warning on Monday about the potential resurgence of dictatorships and the atrocities they can unleash. Turk cautioned the UN Human Rights Council that the world risks a return to an era marked by unrestrained violence, indiscriminate attacks on civilians, forced population transfers, and widespread child labor – practices commonplace in previous centuries. He explicitly stated that the ability of dictators to order mass atrocities, resulting in countless deaths, remains a very real threat. Turk urged immediate action to prevent a repeat of such horrific events.
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