# United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has warned that human rights were being suffocated globally, including by wars and violence as well as autocrats crushing opposition and trampling on international law. He told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that human rights are being suffocated by autocrats, crushing opposition because they fear what a truly empowered people would do. He says warmongers thumb their nose at international law, international humanitarian law and the UN Charter, while wars and violence were stripping people of their right to food, water and education.
UN chief says human rights are being suffocated globally