Volker Türk
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights · Austria / Geneva
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; quoted in this record on famine risk in Gaza.
Financing
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Head of OHCHR; former UN refugee agency official and Secretary-General's chief of cabinet.
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Leads OHCHR, which reports to the General Assembly and is subject to member-state political pressure on Israel–Palestine. Famine-risk statements on Gaza are cited in humanitarian and legal filings; Israel disputes framing and casualty methodology.
Senior UN human-rights voice; statements are institutional advocacy, not legal genocide rulings.
On the record
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Case: gaza palestinians 2023 →“The projected imminent famine in Gaza can and must be prevented.”
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Sources & disclosures
- Comment on famine risk in Gaza — OHCHR