Geneva (AFP) – “Pro-war propaganda is everywhere,” says United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, decrying “the glorification of violence” and the “erosion of international law”. In his opening address to the UN’s Human Rights Council’s 60th session, Turk warns that “the long-established rules of war are being shredded”. The address comes just days after China hosted a massive military parade and after US President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Defense to be renamed the Department of War.
