Human rights institutions and mechanisms
Human rights implementation and impact
Thematic human rights issues
Prevention, accountability and justice
By invitation

Is Türk succeeding in ‘walking the tightrope’ between the different dimensions of his mandate?

by Marc Limon, Executive Director of the Universal Rights Group and Amalia Ordóñez Vahí, Research Fellow, URG Blog, High Commissioner

September will mark one year since Volker Türk’s appointment as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, after his predecessor, Michelle Bachelet, chose not to continue for a second term (no High Commissioner has served out two full terms). It is fair to say that the choice of Türk, widely predicted by UN insiders due to his close relationship with the …