"INVESTIGATION"

The UN Human Rights Office warned that the human rights situation in Sudan continues to be of serious concern, with peaceful protesters killed or injured on a near-daily basis by security forces, as well as a clampdown on critics of the authorities and on independent journalists. OHCHR

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan told the Security Council that “independent and impartial” investigations and adjudications are “crucial” to the Court’s investigations regarding Darfur. UNIFEED

Briefing Security Council on Darfur, prosecutor urges Sudan Government provide International Criminal Court safe access to crime scenes, witnesses.

The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) said it is alarmed by recent incidents which took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as in Serbia fuelled by the continued inflammatory, nationalistic rhetoric and hate speech by individuals and, in some cases, by politicians. UNTV CH

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) hailed the “historic” conviction by a German court of a senior Syrian intelligence officer, for crimes against humanity. OHCHR

As the death toll from the recent unrest in Kazakhstan mounts to 164, the UN Office for Human Rights (OHCHR) today requested “prompt, independent, impartial investigations into these killings and that would include whether unnecessary and disproportionated use of force was made by security forces.” UNTV CH

The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, told the Security Council that “at this stage, the declaration submitted by the Syrian Arab Republic, cannot be considered accurate and complete” in accordance with the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). UNIFEED

Syria’s declaration of compliance with Chemical Weapons Convention still inaccurate due to persisting gaps, inconsistencies, top disarmament official tells Security Council.

Given the continuing desperate plight of migrants and refugees at the Belarus-Poland border, the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) reiterated its call to both countries to urgently address this appalling situation in line with their obligations under international human rights law and refugee law. OHCHR

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) urged a “prompt, independent and thorough investigation” in Sudan into the allegations of “rape and sexual harassment, as well as the allegations of death and injury of protesters as a result of the unnecessary or disproportionate use of force, in particular use of live ammunition,” according to a spokesperson. OHCHR