UN Secretary-General António Guterres has criticised the attacks on human rights by "those with the most power". At the start of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis called for efforts to be refocused on the rights that are most at risk. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Guterres denounced the erosion of the rule of law through the use of force. "Human rights are under total attack around the world," he said in his speech at the opening of a Council session, possibly his last in Geneva. In a year's time, a successor will address the member states in his place. These assaults on the law "do not come as a surprise", insists the secretary-general. "They take place in front of everyone" and sometimes with "pride" by those who are responsible for them, he said. "Do not let this erosion of human rights be the price of political expediency" or international tensions, he added in his message to the member states. + ...
