United Nations “In his harshest warning to date.” hate movements Around the world, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Geneva Human Rights Council on Monday that the world must “intensify the fight against invigorated neo-Nazism, white supremacy and racially and ethnically motivated terrorism”.
“The danger of these hate movements is growing day by day,” the head of the UN said, noting that although he believed they were already the most significant internal challenge for many countries, they were also crossing borders and turning into “More than domestic terrorist threats. They are becoming a transnational threat.”
Guterres addressed the well-documented increase in the impact of racism around the world, saying: “People and groups are engaged in a nurturing hatred frenzy – fundraising, recruitment and online communication both at home and abroad, traveling internationally for to train together and network. their odious ideologies “.
“Too often,” said the secretary-general, “these hate groups are cheered on by people in positions of responsibility in ways that were not unimaginable recently.”
For many listeners, including Richard Gowan, the UN director for the International Crisis Group (ICG) think tank, a target of the latest observation was clear.
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“Guterres worked hard to build a working relationship with Trump while he was in office, which I imagine was often very difficult, and this seems like a reasonable subtle but firm rejection of the former president.” , he told CBS News.
“The deepest fountains of injustice”
The UN chief’s speech highlighted “the most widespread human rights violation: gender inequality”, which he said was fueled by two of the deepest fountains of injustice in our world: the legacy of centuries of colonialism; millennia, of patriarchy “.
Guterres welcomed President Joe Biden’s commitment to re-engage with the UN and Mr Biden’s election as UN ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, which is expected to be at UN headquarters by Thursday, pending Senate confirmation, has upheld human rights and global diversity.
“Guterres has raised these issues before, but he has more political space to highlight these issues now that Biden is in office,” Gowan said.
Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the Council that in the last year, another factor has contributed to inequality or at least to its disclosure in societies: ” pandemic removed the mask from the deadly realities of discrimination; deep inequalities; and chronic underfunding of essential services and rights, all largely ignored by many policy makers. “
With his remarks to the Human Rights Council, the head of the UN sought not only to highlight what he sees as increasing human rights abuses, but to unite leaders to work against it: “When we allow the denigration of any of us, we set the precedent for demonizing everyone. “