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After a decade, the UN’s Antonio Guterres is stepping down. His legacy will be mixed, at best

By Simon Adams, Professor of Human Rights, Murdoch University

In his farewell address to the United Nations General Assembly last week, António Guterres reminisced about his time as secretary general.

In his words, it was a decade during which wars:

dragged on with despicable cruelty. Civilians were targeted. Human rights trampled. Hunger weaponised. Humanitarians killed. International law cast aside.

It’s true Guterres and the UN faced increasingly difficult challenges…

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