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CORRECTING DATE TO 27 - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, is displayed on a screen as she delivers her speech during a special session of the UN Human Rights Council to discuss situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, May 27, 2021. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP) May 27, 2021 - 11:38 AM
GENEVA (AP) â The top U.N. human rights body on Thursday passed a resolution aimed to intensify scrutiny of Israel s treatment of Palestinians, after the U.N. rights chief said Israeli forces may have committed war crimes and faulted the militant group Hamas for violations of international law in their 11-day war this month.
Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has stressed that the United Nations Human Rights Council must take decisive action towards ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. He made the remark while addressing a Special
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Ambassador and Permanent Representative, UK Mission to the WTO, UN and Other International Organisations (Geneva), Simon Manley CMG
LONDON, England – The UK’s ambassador to the UN and WTO in Geneva, Simon Manley, delivered this statement during the Special Session on Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem:
“The United Kingdom strongly welcomes the ceasefire in Israel and Gaza. The foreign secretary Dominic Raab travelled to the region this week to support efforts to ensure the ceasefire is permanent, which is a necessary step to ending the cycle of violence.
I offer Boris Johnson’s deepest condolences to the families of those civilians killed. Each one of those deaths was and is a tragedy.
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UN human rights body orders probe of systematic abuses in Israel, Palestinian areas
The resolution will spur an unprecedented level of scrutiny on abuses and their “root causes” in the decades-long conflict. By AFP Thursday 27 May 2021, 7:40 PM 1 hour ago 2,878 Views 6 Comments
THE UN HUMAN Rights Council decided today to create an open-ended international investigation into violations surrounding the latest Gaza violence, and into “systematic” abuses in the Palestinian territories and inside Israel.
The resolution, which passed with 24 of the council’s 47 members in favour, will spur an unprecedented level of scrutiny on abuses and their “root causes” in the decades-long Middle East conflict.