🪖UN rights chief urges states to challenge Israel over occupation. Volker Türk told countries at the Human Rights Council not to accept the Jewish state’s “blatant disregard for international law” in the occupied Palestinian territories.

🗳️UN rights chief urges voters to beware 'strongman' politicians who 'throw glitter in our eyes'. Without naming any countries, the high commissioner for human rights alluded to upcoming elections in countries that include Georgia, the United States and Tunisia, all where civil and political rights are at stake.

🔎Switzerland calls for UN probe of Sri Lanka army. The UN’s human rights office unveiled its latest report on Sri Lanka on Monday, highlighting the use of laws to clamp down on civic space, two years after protesters toppled the Rajapaksa government.

🎧Interview: Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark. Clark, currently president of Chatham House, discusses leadership, her career in politics and the pressures on democracies around the world.

⛑️‘The world’s simply not noticing’: 2024 likely to be deadliest year for aid workers. Nearly 200 humanitarians have been killed this year as international law is disregarded in Gaza, Sudan and other conflicts. Locals account for the bulk.