Countries are increasingly refusing to cooperate with the UN on human rights. UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said this in the opening of the 32nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today.He warned that situations are alarming in dozens of states, including Syria, Iran and Venezuela. He decried that a number of states are growing who were refusing access to his staff and other UN representatives tasked with investigating allegations of rights violations in their countries. Zeid voiced alarm at the situation in war-ravaged Syria, where no UN human rights monitors have been allowed in since the deadly conflict erupted in March 2011. Zeid also criticised Venezuela, which for the past two and a half years has refused to even issue a visa to his representative in the region. He said Iran meanwhile had blocked all access to his staff since 2013, but situation is worrying execution of large numbers of people, including juveniles in contineud .<br/><br/>Zeid said Belarus, Eritrea and North Korea have also flatly refused all access by UN rights monitors, while Israel has repeatedly refused to cooperate with probes into the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Zeid stressed that rights investigators would not turn a blind eye to situations simply because they were blocked from investigating them on the ground.