UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 (APP): UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk Monday called on countries to reject authoritarianism and protect civic space and fundamental rights in order to advance economic development,
Addressing the opening of the Human Rights Council’s 54th session, Turk strongly condemned the “old, blunt, brutal politics of repression” as exemplified by a rise in military coups and the crushing of dissent – “in short, the fist”.