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Human rights around the world 'being suffocated': UN chief

United Nations Head Office in Geneva, Switzerland.

The United Nations chief warned Monday that human rights were being "suffocated" globally, including by wars and violence as well as autocrats crushing opposition and trampling on international law.

"Human rights are the oxygen of humanity," United Nations chief Antonio Guterres told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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