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Disregard for basic rights is a spreading "disease" with "the perverse phenomenon of populism" fueling rising
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Disregard for basic rights is a spreading "disease" with "the perverse phenomenon of populism" fueling rising intolerance, the UN chief warned Monday as he opened the Human Rights Council's main session. 


The Geneva-based body was holding its first meeting with Washington's seat occupied by an envoy from President Donald Trump's government. 


United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres's keynote address painted a world in "a time of urgency" with rapidly multiplying threats. 


"Disregard for human rights is a disease, and it is a disease that is spreading -- north, south, east and west," Guterres said in his first appearance at the council since taking over the UN's top job. 


"The Human Rights Council must be part of the cure," he added. 


"We are increasingly seeing the perverse phenomenon of populism and extremism feeding off each other in a frenzy of growing racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred and other forms of intolerance," Guterres said. 


In his address, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said nations must defend the world body against "political actors ... (who) threaten the multilateral system or intend to withdraw from parts of it." 


"We will not sit idly by," Zeid told the council. "And our rights, the rights of others, the very future of our planet cannot, must not, be thrown aside by these reckless political profiteers

Source: NNA

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