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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk speaks about the activities of his office and recent human rights developments around the globe, during the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

U.N. rights chief cites ‘communication’ about issues in China

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, meets with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong Province on Monday, May 23, 2022. (Deng Hua/Xinhua via AP)

Blinken says China hid evidence of genocide during U.N. official’s Xinjiang visit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this image made from online video, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet speaks during an online press conference in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong Province, Saturday, May 28, 2022. Bachelet is on a six-day visit to China that includes Xinjiang, a region where the Chinese government has been accused of human rights violations. (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights via AP)

U.N. human rights chief asks China to rethink Uyghur policies

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, meets with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong Province on Monday, May 23, 2022. (Deng Hua/Xinhua via AP)

China claims sabotage as UN rights official visits Xinjiang

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FILE - Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks to the media about the Tigray region of Ethiopia during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 3, 2021. The United Nations' human rights office on Friday, April 21, 2022 set out what it said is growing evidence of war crimes since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, declaring that international humanitarian law appears to have been “tossed aside.” Michelle Bachelet said that “our work to date has detailed a horror story of violations perpetrated against civilians.”(Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

U.N. rights chief sees ‘horror story’ of violations in Ukraine

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In this June 13, 2021, file photo, a man walks through a heavily damaged hospital in the city of Afrin, Syria. Countries like Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen are all teetering on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe with an economic implosion that threatens to throw the region into even deeper turmoil. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

U.N. tallies 350K dead in Syria war, admits toll likely higher

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Heavy construction equipment is used to sift through rubble to uncover valuables before it is transported away from the scene of a building destroyed in an airstrike prior to a cease-fire that halted an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, Thursday, May 27, 2021, in Gaza City. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

U.N. rights chief: Israeli strikes in Gaza may be war crimes

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

UN rights chief: Justice at stake in trial over Floyd death

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

UN rights chief cites ‘need’ to assess rights in Xinjiang

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

UN rights chief expects US will be ‘much better’ under Biden

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Riot police block Belarusian pensioners wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. Hundreds of retirees rallied in the Belarusian capital on Monday against the country's authoritarian leader, as security forces moved to break up the traditional weekly march. The crowd of pensioners in Minsk that demanded President Alexander Lukashenko to resign ran into police cordons along the route of the march and divided into smaller groups that went into different directions. (AP Photo)

UN rights chief laments worsening situation in Belarus

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FILE - In this Wednesday, June 17, 2020 file photo the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The U.N. human rights chief is hailing “some extremely encouraging pledges” from U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, citing his call for efforts to address issues like systemic racism, women’s rights, torture and climate change. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, file)

UN rights chief to AP: Biden’s pledges are ‘encouraging’

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends the 44th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, 30 June 2020. (Denis Balibouse/Keystone via AP)

UN rights chief decries racism in US, keeps eye on Hong Kong

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

UN rights office seeks probe of reported Navalny poisoning

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Mother of UN rights chief Bachelet dies in Chile

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