GENEVA, September 9 (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday approved the appointment of Austrian Volker Turk as the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, succeeding Chilean Michelle Bachelet whose term took over. end August 31.
Reuters reported earlier that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres proposed Volker Turk, Under-Secretary-General for Policy, to be appointed as High Commissioner for Human Rights.
His most pressing challenge will be to deal with the fallout from the report published by Michelle Bachelet just before his departure on human rights violations committed by China in the Xinjiang region against the Ughurs and other Muslim minorities – possible war crimes , according to the document. (Report Emma Farge, with Michelle Nichols New York; French version Jean Terzian)