"WAR CRIMES"

UN Human Rights Spokesperson Liz Throssell today briefed reporters on the ongoing fighting in Yemen and enforced disappearances law in Pakistan. UNTV CH

Targeted sanctions, Darfur arms embargo continue to thwart spoilers of peace in Sudan, chair of 1591 Committee tells Security Council. Updated sanctions list can help Somalia in its fight against Al-Shabaab, chair of Committee pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) tells Security Council.

Those who commit atrocity crimes will ‘ultimately be brought to justice’, Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals head tells Security Council.

“There are sadly still too many people like Mladić,” the Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals Serge Brammertz told the Security Council following the announcement of conviction of Ratko Mladić, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb armed forces of genocide and persecution during Balkans wars 1992-1995. UNIFEED

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a statement on the delivery by the International Residual Mechanism for the Criminal Tribunals of the appeals judgment in the case against Ratko Mladić, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb armed forces, calling “on all those in position of power to refrain from denying the seriousness of the crimes that have been adjudicated.” UNIFEED / FILE

Elements to the press by Gert Auväärt, Deputy Permanent Representative of Estonia and President of the Security Council for the month of June, following closed consultations on the Central African Republic.

Following a closed briefing by the Special Representative of the Secretary General for the Central African Republic (CAR) Mankeur Ndiaye, the Security Council issued a statement that “strongly condemned ongoing human rights violations and abuses, and violations of international humanitarian law in the Central African Republic and stressed the need to bring to justice the perpetrators.” UNIFEED

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said the recent events have “made clear once again the costs of perpetual conflict and lost hope” adding that the international community's approach to Gaza and the conflict as a whole “cannot be business as usual, and we cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past.” UNIFEED

An international probe is to be set up to investigate rights abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel following the recent deadly escalation of violence there, after a vote at the Human Rights Council on Thursday. UNTV CH

High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet said, “there is no doubt that Israel has the right to defend its citizens and residents. However, Palestinians have rights too. The same rights.” OHCHR