The UN Human Rights Chief warned of the “fundamental shift” in the United States and sounded alarm over the growing power of “unusual technological oligarchs”, in the stabbing of Washington in the Presidency of Donald Trump.
Volker Türk said that for decades was a two-day support for human rights in the United States, but she said that “is now deeply concerned from the fundamental shift in the direction of domestic and international”.
Without reference to Trump named, Türk, the Austrian lawyer leading the UN Rights, He criticized the measures of Republican president To overturn long-term capital and anti-discrimination policies, as well as repeated threats to the media and politicians.
“In the paradoxical mirror, policies intended for the protection of people from discrimination are now marked as discriminatory. Progress is returning to gender equality,” Türk said in Comments to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
“Disinformation, intimidation and threats, especially against journalists and public servants, undermine the work of independent media and the functioning of institutions,” he added. “Division rhetoric is used for distortion, fraud and polarized. This generates fear and anxiety among many.”
From return to power, Trump continued to attack the press. Last month, the Associated News Agency was forbidden – where local and international media traditionally relied on American government reporting – from the White House.
His administration has launched the cleaning of anti-discrimination policies under the roof deadline, capital and inclusion (dei) and moved to the practice for transgender people. At the same time, the administration sent panic through communities with their widespread and stinking immigration.
Internationally, the United States has moved to international organizations that promote health and human rights, such as the World Health Organization and imposed economic sanctions in the International Criminal Court, which investigate war crimes in Gaza.
The traditional Washington Allies, including Canada, France and Germany, feel more alarming because Trump trepa in democratic leaders while expressing the affection of autocrats, including Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
In his speech on Monday, Türk presented the worried examination of the global situation of law, saying that the world “went through the period of turbulence and unpredictability.”
“(What) We experience goes into the summer of international order – an invalid level of global stability. We cannot allow a fundamental global consensus around international norms and institutions, built painstaking for decades, to decompose in front of our eyes.”
He called on a growing influence that is a “handful of non-sided technical oligarchs” who “has our data: they know where we live, what we do, our genes and our health conditions, our habits, our Željke and our fears.”
Türk added: “They know how to manipulate us.”
Although his comments were not focused on the United States, they come at the time of the rise and consolidated power among American technological and social media billionaire that fell in order behind Trump.
They include Elon Musk, who owns X and was 78-year president’s president, but also Meta Mark Zuckerberg, who finished on Facebook and Instagram on Facebook and Instagram, António Guterres, he warned He will open “floods to more hatred, more threats and more violence.”
Amazon Jeff Bezos, a tregligi rich and owner of Washington, who tried candidates in the last American presidential elections for the first time in decades, recently prohibited articles who did not support their views on “personal freedoms and free markets.
Türk, whose comments were not limited to the situation in the United States, but could also be applied to technical leaders in China and India, “any form of unregulated power can lead to oppression, subjugation, and even tyranny – autocrat reproduction.”
2025-03-03 16:18:00
