Forgotten conflicts in countries like Somalia, Mozambique, Yemen or Haiti “can have consequences for the people directly affected but also beyond their borders, and threaten to destabilize their regions,” warned the high-ranking UN commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk.
At a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council to prepare for its work in 2023, Türk said that these crises that do not usually make headlines, overshadowed by other conflicts, “must attract the attention of this Council” to “protect all “.
In any case, Türk praised the work of the Council, made up of 47 UN member states, stressing that it maintained its work during the most difficult moments of the pandemic and “reacted quickly to emerging crises, even faster than in the past.”
The high commissioner recalled that 2023 will be marked by the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “a miraculous text, written and adopted in a world that emerged from the ruins of the Second World War” but that defends ideals that still have not been achieved.