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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Oliver Holmes

UN human rights chief ‘deeply worried by fundamental shift’ in US

Volker Türk speaking in front of a UN backdrop
Volker Türk: ‘In a paradoxical mirror image, policies intended to protect people from discrimination are now labelled as discriminatory.’ Photograph: Martial Trezzini/EPA

The UN human rights chief has warned of a “fundamental shift” in the US and sounded the alarm over the growing power of “unelected tech oligarchs”, in a stinging rebuke of Washington weeks into Donald Trump’s presidency.

Volker Türk said there had been bipartisan support for human rights in the US for decades but said he was “now deeply worried by the fundamental shift in direction that is taking place domestically and internationally”.

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