"CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY"

A UN Spokesperson said Fulgence Kayishema’s apprehension "sends a powerful message that those who are alleged to have committed such crimes cannot evade justice and will eventually be held accountable, even more than a quarter of a century later.” UNIFEED

Noting that Mocha was “the most powerful cyclone to make landfall in this part of Myanmar”, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the country, Tom Andrews, said that “what we're seeing right now is misery on top of misery.” UNIFEED

Un rapport d’une mission d’établissement des faits du Bureau des droits de l'homme des Nations Unies a conclu qu'il y a de fortes indications que plus de 500 personnes auraient été tuées - la grande majorité sommairement exécutées - par les troupes maliennes et du personnel militaire étranger au cours d'une opération militaire de cinq jours dans le village de Moura, au centre du Mali, en mars 2022. HCDH

The Council is scheduled to receive the biannual briefing of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, on the ICC's Libya-related activities.

UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward told reporters that the UK “strongly condemned” the Myanmar Armed Forces attack on unarmed children and civilians. UNIFEED

En parlant de la République Centre Africaine, le Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme, Volker Türk, a dit, “Il est rare qu'un pays dont le bilan en matière de droits de l'homme est si alarmant soit à ce point oublié par le reste du monde.” UNTV CH

A report published by the UN Human Rights Office vividly details the ongoing suffering of victims of enforced disappearance and abduction by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. OHCHR

The UN General Assembly marked today the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, highlighting the importance of education. UNIFEED

The UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya expressed deep concern in its final report about the country’s deteriorating human rights situation. The human rights investigators said that there are grounds to believe that Libyan authorities and armed militia groups have been responsible for “a wide array of war crimes, and crimes against humanity” in recent years. UNTV CH