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Volker Türk

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights · Austria / Geneva

Intergovernmental (UN)

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; quoted in this record on famine risk in Gaza.

Funding & financing

UN salary.

Affiliations

Head of OHCHR; former UN refugee agency official and Secretary-General's chief of cabinet.

Disclosures & conflicts

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.

Credibility & caveats

Senior UN human-rights voice; statements are institutional advocacy, not legal genocide rulings.

On the record

Verbatim quotations in this project attributed to this person.

Cases in this record

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Sources & disclosures