Full interview with U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The conversation touched on Gaza, immigration policy in the United States, climate change around the world, the global fight to preserve human rights and more.

Part 2 of Democracy Now!'s conversation with Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory. She was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration, shortly after publishing a report on corporations supporting what she calls Israel's “economy of genocide.”

Democracy Now! 2025-07-11 Friday

• Headlines for July 11, 2025
• Ex-NOAA Official on TX Flood: Trump Breaking "Disaster Response Chain" as Climate Crisis Escalates
• Judge Blocks Trump Birthright Citizenship Order; DOJ Caught Lying About Men Sent to El Salvador
• U.N. Human Rights Chief Slams Trump's Anti-Immigrant Policies, "Militarized Response" to Protests

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-10 Thursday

• Headlines for July 10, 2025
• From Agents on Horseback in L.A. to a Chicago Arts Festival, Latino Communities Mobilize Against ICE
• "Apocalypse in the Tropics": Brazilian Filmmaker on Evangelicals, Bolsonaro & Trump's Tariff Threat
• "Economy of Genocide": U.S. Sanctions U.N. Expert Who Reports on Corporate Profits from Israel's Gaza War

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-10 Thursday

• Headlines for July 10, 2025
• From Agents on Horseback in L.A. to a Chicago Arts Festival, Latino Communities Mobilize Against ICE
• "Apocalypse in the Tropics": Brazilian Filmmaker on Evangelicals, Bolsonaro & Trump's Tariff Threat
• "Economy of Genocide": U.S. Sanctions U.N. Expert Who Reports on Corporate Profits from Israel's Gaza War

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-09 Wednesday

• Headlines for July 09, 2025
• "Netanyahu Is the Problem": Sanders's Former Adviser Matt Duss on Why Gaza Ceasefire Remains Elusive
• "Vladimir Putin Is Not Interested in a Peace Deal": Matt Duss on Trump's Stalled Ukraine Diplomacy
• "Ideological Deportation": AAUP v. Rubio Trial Challenges Trump Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Students
• Philadelphia Strike Ends: Race & Inequality at Center of Municipal Workers' Fight for a Fair Wage

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-08 Tuesday

• Headlines for July 08, 2025
• Hold GOP Accountable: Youngest Dem. Congresswoman on Medicaid, Climate Cuts & Her Visit to ICE Jail
• "Freedom to Choose"?: Peter Beinart Slams Trump-Netanyahu Plan for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
• Peter Beinart on Zohran Mamdani & Why Democratic Voters Are Increasingly Skeptical of Israel
• What Is the Trump Doctrine? John Bellamy Foster on U.S. Foreign Policy & the "New MAGA Imperialism"

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-07 Monday

• Headlines for July 07, 2025
• Texas Flood Kills 82+, Including 28 Kids, Amid Drought, Trump Cuts to Weather Service, NOAA & FEMA
• "Most Massive Transfer of Wealth Upward in American History": John Nichols on Trump's Budget Law
• "Frontal Assault" on Climate Justice: Rolling Stone's Antonia Juhasz on Trump's Budget Law
• "Completely Illegal": Dr. Feroze Sidhwa on Israel's "Outrageous" Attacks on Gaza Hospitals & Staff

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-04 Friday

• "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
• "Empire of AI": Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World
• Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the "Quasi-Religious" Push for Artificial Intelligence

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-03 Thursday

• Headlines for July 03, 2025
• EXCLUSIVE: Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian Activist Jailed by ICE for 104 Days, in First Live Interview
• GOP Budget Bill Slashes Medicaid for Millions, Cuts Taxes for the Rich, Funds ICE at Historic Levels

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