United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (C) attends the opening of the 34th Human Rights Council (HRC) session in Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 27, 2017. Guterres said Monday that growing human rights violations across the world are akin to a spreading disease which needs to be cured through multilateral forums including the HRC, whose latest session kicked off Monday. (Xinhua/Xu Jinquan)