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GENEVA — U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk warned that his office is in “survival mode” amid deepening funding shortfalls, launching a $400 million appeal to sustain global monitoring and accountability work as rights abuses surge worldwide. Addressing diplomats at the U.N. rights office in Geneva, Türk said chronic underfunding is hampering life-saving operations “at a time when truth is being eroded by disinformation and censorship.” He called the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) “a lifeline for…

UN human rights chief Volker Turk says his office is in “survival mode” after major donor funding cuts forced deep reductions in staff and operations just as rights violations are mounting in conflict zones. “Our resources have been slashed, along with funding for human rights organisations - including at the grassroots level - around the world. “We are in survival mode,” Mr Turk told reporters. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is about €77 million short of what it needed this year,…