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Mar 2025
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Volker Türk: Are we sleepwalking into a ...

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Stephen Sackur speaks to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk. As conflicts destroy millions of lives around the world, are we sleepwalking into a dystopian future?

(Photo: Volker Türk, UN Commissioner for Human Rights appears via video on Hardtalk)

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