{"id":32368,"date":"2024-09-10T20:19:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T17:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=32368"},"modified":"2024-09-10T20:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T17:19:39","slug":"united-nations-the-world-is-at-a-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/10\/united-nations-the-world-is-at-a-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations: The World is at a Crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk warned yesterday (Monday) that the world is at a &#8220;crossroads&#8221; and, if it doesn&#8217;t wake up, is heading towards a &#8220;bleak future&#8221; in the face of escalating conflicts, oppression, and media disinformation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking at the opening of the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council, T\u00fcrk said, &#8220;We can either continue on the current path, accepting this treacherous new normal, sleepwalking into a bleak future, or we can wake up and turn things around for the betterment of humanity and the planet.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a world rife with conflicts, including the wars in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, T\u00fcrk emphasized that &#8220;nations must not and cannot accept the blatant disregard for international law.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He warned that the world is currently accepting &#8220;many red lines being crossed.&#8221; He cautioned against accepting what is increasingly seen as the &#8220;new normal&#8221; in the world, stressing that there &#8220;cannot be an endless violent military escalation with increasingly brutal war tactics, control, and repression.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk warned yesterday (Monday) that the world is at a &#8220;crossroads&#8221; and, if it doesn&#8217;t wake up, is heading towards a &#8220;bleak future&#8221; in the face of escalating conflicts, oppression, and media disinformation. Speaking at the opening of the 57th session of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32369,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368\/revisions\/32369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}