Watch: PCHR’s intervention during the Item 7 General Debate, calling on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and his Office (United Nations Human Rights ) to finally recognize the situation in Gaza for what it is: a genocide.

Such long-overdue recognition would, among other things, acknowledge the suffering of victims and increase pressure on States to act in accordance with their legal obligations under the Genocide Convention to bring the ongoing genocide to an end as it approaches its fourth year.