GENEVA (AN) — Killings, torture and other outrages are going on across dozens of nations fueled by wars and conflicts in places like Ukraine, Syria and Mali, the new U.N. human rights chief said in an appeal for peace.
Among the worrying situations, the U.N.'s Volker Türk told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday, are the "unparalled" repression of women in Afghanistan and "grave concerns" for large-scale arbitrary detentions and family separations in the Xinjiang region of China, which recently agreed to open "channels of communication" with the U.N. human rights office.
