UN staff urge rights chief Volker Turk to call Gaza war a ‘genocide’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Letter sent on behalf of more than 500 OHCHR workers says failure to describe the war as a ‘genocide’ undermines the global rights protection system.

Hundreds of United Nations staff have made an appeal to the body’s human rights chief Volker Turk to publicly describe the war in Gaza as a “genocide”, saying his office’s failure to do so undermines the global rights protection system.

The appeal was made in a letter, signed by the Staff Committee…