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driving geo political labels. but the widespread adoption of battery powered cars is facing the big challenges. plus how green our electric cars compared to fossil fuel, was counting the costs on alpha 0, the human rights. the cornerstone of equality and tennis are universally recognized principles to which every individual is entitled. that's regardless of nationality, gender, ethnicity, religion, language, or any other state is the universal declaration of human rights. a landmark document abducted by the united nations in 1948, sits out the fundamental and universal stand it for these inalienable rights since its inception view and has been at the forefront of advocating for monitoring and enforcing these rights through an array of treaties. international laws and

humanitarian initiatives, however, a different story unfolds in some parts of our world. despite the you in to watch the spectra of human rights violations, hormones the most venerable, incomplete written areas like ukraine, sudan, and gaza. tales of appalling suffering. i am merging with the rights to life safety and basic needs are not just infringed, but often the filed and shifted. and the advent of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and the escalating climate change crisis. also present unprecedented challenges to human rights. so it was a need to re evaluate the human rights framework to address this pressing concern un high commissioner for human rights poker took talks to out to 0. the un high commissioner for human rights poker took. thank you for talking to alex's era to begin with

a lot of conflict in the wills at this time. but let's start right away with what is happening in gaza and the occupied westbank. and israel's actions in which its critics contend does a method application of human rights. but we're seeing an unmitigated tragedy. we see that great violations of international internal. um, we're also seeing the fact that to be submitted to an action in the way that it's normally supposed to be done is how possible in the way that people would respond to the suffering to the massive suffering of the students. especially in goals that we have now over 1200000 people just in, in rough. uh so you, it's getting winter, it's getting cold. so you can imagine what this means and we don't have enough food to, to take to them. we don't have the water that is necessary. we don't have the medicine that is necessary. us and this well and the westbank we, we have seen

a rafter deterioration. we have over 7271. testing has killed 69 children among them. since the 7th of october, and of course that's also kept repeat also we have seen the troll my niece arrived . we have seen what happened there. and so i see in front of us the situation of a far for or community. some with isn't the is really government contend that when him nice through instead of attack on october, the 7th, some of its targets including women and children. it did not. they are always a pool. it was a few men to tear in action. they argue that because of that, it's okay for me as well as not to be such a stringent restrictions either what you will be will set. oh, so what we saw happen on the 7th and the 8th of october is absolutely how realistic and it's unacceptable. but i mean, it doesn't observe israel of its responsibility to respect international paranoid

international and right, so you cannot otherwise, it becomes revenge and vengeance and, and that's never leads to a result that is good for, for any community. and i mean, that's also the problem is of, of human rights. the problem is, is to apply human rights equally to everyone and, and that's what we have to ensure at these very, very tragic moment in the history of the middle east. now somebody argue that the situation is compounded by the us supply of weapons to is welding carrying out these operations. now the us for the re, quote says that it only provides weapons to those countries that are in and i quote them for compliance with international humanitarian rule and the laws of the will. but clearly on the face of it, israel is not in accordance with these principles. look, i mean it's clear that for practice who has any influence on. so in this

case, each row over her boss need to exercise the influence to get them back to a and to get them back to a situation where international always respected. and we are not at this space at this, at this point in time. and we use our payment is that that's got to be done through interaction that doesn't want to you sanction to force the parties together. then if would robin use this relationship with this? well, to bring about this and is that a workable? what we see increasingly, the narrative that points out the importance of respect for instrument of the handle. and let's also not forget, we have seen holding to ask community use or what happened. the general assembly passed the resolution calling for a humanitarian sci fi, which, by the way, is what all of us have been doing for quite a long time. and that's really is the only solution we need to see an end to the silence. and we need to see a humanitarian ceasefire human rights. it's fire because it's also ultimately about

the human rights of a full, a full of both palestinians. and these right is if we need to see and enter this and nothing good comes out of finance. and, but you know, you have an intractable problem. us veto in the security council, the u. s. boat against the sci fi in the general assembly. this is a major stumbling block, is it not? it absolutely is. and you saw what the secretary general did not long ago, he actually use one paragraph what article of view and talk to, to put member states ends in particular. the security council in front of the responsibilities by invoking article 99. now somebody pointed out to the language being used by some members of the use way, he definitely into pad, reference to god's is not the which is in reference to the catastrophe of 1948 when millions of palestinians were displaced, killed, as you've had reference to palestinians in the most rocketry of terms now some

arguing that this conveys an intent to displace or remove the type of thing. and people which in turn is one of the qualifications for a genocide. what do you go so far? has to see that happening? i mean, i'm very worried about the human icing language. i'm very worried about the type of statements that we have seen, both on the part of a month, but also on the part of some political and military leaders in israel. and i have made these concerns extremely well known because they are, i mean, as we always see, and so many situations around the world, they gave us great costs toward it and they could indicate a risk of atrocity crimes. indeed. now let's move to the other point. so if the conflict of the russian invasion of ukraine now, president biden has on the re, quote, as describing that as a genocide you will be, look, i mean ukraine is again,

we have seen an award that has been going on for almost 2 years with a devastating told on the civilian population with over we could verify at least over 10000 people being killed, to beat any infrastructure. massively damaged over of when almost a 1000 education facility is destroyed. 400 or 400 hospitals being damaged. and of course massive human rights violations. so as and with the onset of what we have already, we are not even in the onset, if we think we are in with the very, very creative human to turn situation. so it's clear that the world needs to wake up and bring us back to we have over $55.00 conflicts around the world. one quarter of humanity lives in a situation of conflict of violence. but the whole, it also appears to exist on double standards. in many cases, the us would vote against the russian invasion of ukraine. it will veto any

resolution cooling for a spot in gaza. these situations are pretty similar to this, this type of tool action over to chris that he has that may put it under mine, your attempts as your body to be able to forge some form of the last thing respectful community will look what member states are doing has always been in their own logic and has always been what, what they, to my mandate. he's an independent one. and my man that applies itself to each and every country and to each of every situation. and we apply it in, in the way that we, that we see fit. and what i think we need to also bear in mind that despite the negative news, i've just come out of a high level event in geneva, where we commemorated, did not celebrate. we commemorated the 75th anniversary of the united of the united and invest legislation of your rights. and i was encouraged by the fact that over

155 member states glitched very concrete measures to advance human rights. we got 5 countries seeing that they would abolish the death penalty. we have $54.00 countries who, who said that they would review the legislation to from the tender equality perspective, to remove the discriminatory provisions. we have a 14 that said they would establish a nation rights institution. we have a 10 that no one to strength and accountability measures. so we also see this, and i think it's important despite the negative at the end, the some, the moment that we are in that there, there is also progress. and there is, there are countries, there are leaders that people, especially young people who care about human rights, into one the right thing to happen. and we, time one situation appears for a moment to be immediate rated. another one breaks out. you've got a wall underway in sudan for example,

for the last few months. to what extent does this evidence of action like the war in sudan coming on top of everything else? how difficult does that make your job in terms of getting that needed respectful human rights look so done, i, it was the 1st country i visited when i became, i commissioner and i visited it because i was so impressed by young people by women who stood up in 2019 to over throw 30 years of military dictatorship and i wanted to go with them myself and see and speak to them. and they just had a year earlier. another cool. so i had a chance to speak to them to speak to young people, to speak to the, the resistance committees. and i was so i was think courage by their spirit of, of the coming nation of perseverance. and then a couple of months later when we will sort that there would be a civilian transition. these 2 guys decided to wage war against each other. and

it's the west situation since $56.00 for the people after that. and we don't see any sign of the escalation at the moment, and i can only hope that both i bore hon and humanity see the military solution is not in their own interest. and i hope that accountability with this because we have seen very great functions of international, internal and international men, right. so, and it breaks down the people of the whole country. are you talking about 2 leaders who fought a war against the dictator together? who promised to return to the engine room together. now they are opposed to each other. this is just another example of how easily good intentions can get totally disrupt. one of the missing pieces was accountability in sit down. and so again, if we don't see accountability,

if we see that impunity east coast accepted, we have a problem. we see this in many concrete situation. so another big lessons learned a festival of take human rights or seriously it's, but it's not just within the national context, but also within that international context. heat the early warning signs, but then also take accountability most seriously. and. and we have seen examples where it has worked, you know, we have the establishment of the international criminal criminal tribunal for me to solve the international criminal tribunal for one to now the international criminal record, the i c. c. but it's not enough. we need much more of it, especially in situations where you, where you, but people have gone into conflict and transitional trust is truth. find the truth telling and accountability. i key this. take that issue of accountability shortly before you took over your pri, this as a, issued

a report condemning chinese treatment of the week is in the wisdom province. and that was a deming report. and it stated very clearly that china is responsible for crimes against humanity. now what a comfortability has they have beaten their full time. this treatment of the week is i have been very clear about the human rights situation in china. and i have just because that's also part of my job. i have engaged with them and i hope that these engagement will lead to changes. and we have an upcoming you'd about for periodic review, which is within the human rights system as a peer review among member states. and i hope that we can really build on that and that we can see changes that are necessary once again that that report said, as i said, the crimes against humanity. but genocide was not mentioned just as a conscious decision, not to take the lead. by the way it did not. the report did not say that the crimes

against humanity were committed. they said they said we may be, may be correct and quit amount 2. but it didn't, it didn't specifically say that i look when we do oh analysis. we do it on the basis of the effects that we have assembled. we have a very rigorous methodology and we do that wherever we work. and so when we say something we, we have, yeah, we use this on the basis of the analysis, that's my office s. s s been able to conduct this a slide sideways moving one of the issues with the human rights is new digital technologies. this is not, not using the example of china once again. there are reports of facial recognition, software is being used which can identify the race of those meetings. and now this as well is reporting the being used and israel against the palestinians. the same technology. how much of a human rights contravention is the use of technology like this in, for example, identifying ways look when it comes to

a tentative start. if he sent had a chance, it's a big human rights concern. let's 1st of all, let's also say the positive, again, artificial intelligence, if it would help us a lot to overcome some of the problems science on more generally 1000 technology that we need to learn rights godrays. and if there is one lesson to be learned from the social media platforms is that these car dress has not been put into place already enough because what we see on social media platforms, it's not directly related. if, if, if it's the godrays on there, you'll see the spread of this and harmful this information. you see the spread of hits page and insights into violence. and we have many examples of that. and so what we need is, especially for the development of, of general tci it so that he doesn't need to face recognition and racial profiling . and, and the modernization of already groups at risk that these cartridge, i've been staying. and that's

a very strong message that comes from the when you saw the secular agenda is just to establish that advisory board on artificial intelligence. and also our my own office wants to provide that knowledge to the tech companies. and we have started and we have actually had for quite some time now i dialogue with, with the tech companies precisely to ensure that the understands and human rights apply when they develop these things. and they say again, the question of the accountability at some stage should need to be honest. the issue here is that the you in can say this is what needs to be done. but it is a nation state like china that puts in those golf roles into the technology that it is useful as well as the case with using face recognition technology. to what extent do you have the power to not only advise nation states, but also ensure that they follow through on what the advises it was? that's the problem of international law. more generally,

because we don't tax the enforcement power. the only thing we can do is use the fact that we have the human rights accounts with the fact that we have 3 parties. you have binding legal obligations and that we can only continue to point out these obligations. and in life it's documented, reported and well and then see which mechanisms picks it up so that it actually gets, gets done. and i have to say, you know, also looking ahead, we have 70 elections coming up next year for 1000000000 people. we let it, we, we're, we're going to elections fulfilling, and people what i'm worried about is the potential of harm for this information on social media platforms. and it's also responsibility of the business companies because we also know that some of the business models are unfortunately built on negative news spread of hatred of home for this information. so there is also responsibility for member states to regulate somebody's rights perspective,

but also for businesses to, to be aware of their own obligations under human rights for, for, for this type of services that they offer. that sometimes you see nations on the cutting of principles. it's something like human rights, for example, it may take the const duncan with the united states with presidents of universities, helping put a read for refusing to say that this is hate speech, for example, saying that to him, messages, messages about israel, i hate speech, and they are defending that by a 1st amendment principle of freedom of speech principle, which is underpinned by a supreme court decision and 1969 and get the us. and so even the white house waited on that argument and put a read those who refuse to discuss something without the context, basting deposition 100 supreme court decisions, the concrete. so the white house is ignoring that decision. that's what it was.

that's a national issue. it's not the issue of freedom of speech and freedom of expression when it comes to international writesville because international in writesville has exceptions when it comes to incitement to violence and hit speech. and we have very clear that that's not in line with human rights. so when it comes to the international legal framework, we actually have very clearly defined exceptions that you can not insight to violence or hatred of, of, on the basis of race. or if it's what we're against women or, or basis of sex orientation and gender identity. so the human rights, so as x to the onset to and the solution to this issue, a recurring theme throughout the time that we've been talking, you use a word, a number of times accountability. how does one establish accountability? you've got a security council that has crippled by the tow effectively, so no sanction can come from the security council. on most occasions. you've got

a general assembly in which the boat is more binding. how do you, given these circumstances, start establishing accountability, but also demanding accountability? again, it's good to go back to history because the security council was paralyzed for pretty much most of the period of the quote for it didn't stop the accountability because you could, especially when it comes to human rights violations. universal jurisdiction came up and was established, for instance, under the convention against torture. if you are a torture, you will and if you is a member say to sign the convention against torture, it is under the obligation to, to prosecute you. so there, there are ways and means to work on that comfortability beyond the security council, or even the general tab, by the way. it is still a very strong, strong signal these days, the general assembly, the resolution with the vast majority of them, the states quoting for you,

minute there and see. so i it, for example, as we saw just now, garza and so once you and underestimate that either politically. but it is true the legal at the legal level. we need both the functioning of the international criminal court, but also of course universal terry stick jurisdiction to, to be applied much more rigorously when it comes to about nations of human rights with reform of the security council. make your job in terms of enforcing human rights, easier by perhaps giving a greater representation on the council or indeed removing the data which has payments something broken so many as patient. you know, we have had an ongoing debate on the reform is if you go to concert for a very long time and indeed there is hopefully a chance that this will go ahead by it being much more representative. i mean, the details of course, would have to be worked out for the member states as quite a complex deviation by the way. but what i hope that the security counts that we do

in the future is actually look at human rights in a much more centered way. and that means, because from the prevention perspective, if you see violations of human rights is an indication that things are going arrive in a country. and that analysis needs to feed into that the liberation whether or not it's going to resolve the paralysis that we see at the moment. i don't know, but it is important for the international community to understand that human rights has actually something to say and more centrally to say about what's happening in different countries. and what the responsibilities are is especially if those countries who have influence overboard, impacted. for example, as you're talking about human rights is like a canary in a gold mine. it's when that's a oh country being that you know that something is going on. yes, i think it's a very good image, but it's also a solution. it's not just the canary in the going on. it's in the, it's also, it's also a solution. for instance, economy, human rights and economy,

economic systems, we're always something that one wouldn't talk about. they wouldn't economy stormy. they never talked about human rights. actually, if you are an economist or if you are responsible for macro economic policies in your country, and if you don't know about human rights, you will see arise if you need an equality, if you will see that motion or less than vulnerable groups. i'm not going to be protected and you will not invest in education house and social protection, which is what we see was the big less than from corporate 19 that you actually, that those countries who had invested in it did much better. so my guess my message is for one rights is also a solution, and i wish that each and every discipline around the world would take human rights much more seriously and even know more about human rights so that you can actually prevent that was from happening. could you extrapolate that theory about economics to climate change as well?

yes, because climate change, you know, we already see what's happening in this. i had it, for example, we know that we know in somalia i was just in iraq in august. i mean, i went to parts where i know that, you know, in fostering the south where the, with, with the temperatures go up to 50 over 50 degrees centigrade. and not just a couple of days for weeks on end, barren landscape around me. or as insert 2 years ago where you had still lash reverse and, and states bombs and, and, and, and dates, uh that were there and, and where people could actually, if i talk to those communities, we said we can no longer live in these circumstances. and they would be displaced eventually or already displaced. and we see the same in this. i have competition overs cast resources means war. and that's what we need to prevent. so kabbage change is the biggest challenge that we face, and unfortunately we don't talk enough about it anymore. broken. took you in high

commission and for human rights. thank you for talking to us. because the i'm, i just wanna show you got some feet about black. but i want to do it live on come funny enough with, with the police left behind us to black essential workers share their experiences of racism in the u. k. replaced by the end of a point where they've done breakfast well and showed the way black. it was on the weathering on the jersey. the african countries have struggled to reclaim many of the facts taken by you, if you call them nice. this is our experience. most of our identities in the final pose of this use, museums and collectors, still hold precious assets selected few have been returned,

but the still a long way to go on progress is painfully slow restitution. because with punctuation on notice here, the job. searching the rubble, 1st of all i have is more palestinians killed in israel as late to strike some central gauze of the engine rushed to hospital. the hasn't said you, this is a life and also coming up gaza civil.