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Volker Türk, the Glossary

Volker Türk (born 1965) is an Austrian lawyer and United Nations official.^[1]

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Johannes Kepler University Linz alumni
People from Linz
United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights

Adama Dieng

Adama Dieng (born 22 May 1950, Senegal) is a former UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide succeeded by Alice Wairimu Nderitu of Kenya.

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Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN; The Peninsula) is a private-media conglomerate headquartered at Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar.

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António Guterres

António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres (born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat.

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Climate change mitigation

Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that cause climate change.

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Federico Villegas (diplomat)

Federico Villegas Beltrán (born 24 March 1966) is an Argentine career diplomat.

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International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

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Israel–Hamas war

An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023.

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Johannes Kepler University Linz

The Johannes Kepler University Linz (German: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, short: JKU) is a public university in Austria.

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Linz

Linz (Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria.

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Master of Laws

A Master of Laws (M.L. or LL.M.; Latin: Magister Legum or Legum Magister) is an advanced postgraduate academic degree, pursued by those either holding an undergraduate academic law degree, a professional law degree, or an undergraduate degree in a related subject.

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Michelle Bachelet

Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022. Volker Türk and Michelle Bachelet are United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights.

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Oberösterreichische Nachrichten

The Oberösterreichische Nachrichten (OÖN) is a German language regional newspaper published in Linz, Austria.

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

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ORF (broadcaster)

italic (lit.: 'Austrian Broadcasting'; ORF) is an Austrian national public broadcaster. Funded from a combination of television licence fee revenue and limited on-air advertising, ORF is the dominant player in the Austrian broadcast media. Austria was the last country in continental Europe after Albania to allow nationwide private television broadcasting, although commercial TV channels from neighbouring Germany have been present in Austria on pay-TV and via terrestrial overspill since the 1980s.

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Picking quarrels and provoking trouble

Picking quarrels and provoking trouble, also translated as picking quarrels and stirring up trouble or picking quarrels and making trouble, is a type of criminal offense in the People's Republic of China.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Secretary-General of the United Nations

The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.

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Thesis

A thesis (theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.

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Tiroler Tageszeitung

Tiroler Tageszeitung (also known as TT) is a provincial daily newspaper published in Innsbruck, Austria.

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UN Human Rights Office report on Xinjiang

The OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China is a report published on 31 August 2022 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concerning the treatment of Uyghurs and other largely Muslim groups in China.

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Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

An under-secretary-general of the United Nations (USG) is a senior official within the United Nations System, normally appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the secretary-general for a renewable term of four years.

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United Nations General Assembly

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

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United Nations Secretariat

The United Nations Secretariat is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), The secretariat is the UN's executive arm.

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University of Graz

The University of Graz (Universität Graz; old: Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) is a public research university located in Graz, Austria. It is the largest and oldest university in Styria, as well as the second-largest and second-oldest university in Austria.

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University of Vienna

The University of Vienna (Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria.

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Vladimir Kara-Murza

Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza (Владимир Владимирович Кара-Мурза; born 7 September 1981) is a Russian-British political activist, journalist, author, filmmaker, and political prisoner.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Türk