"WAR CRIMES"

Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said at the Human Rights Council’s special session on Ukraine that her Office continues to verify allegations of violations of international human rights law and of international humanitarian law, many of which may amount to war crimes. UNTV CH

A special session of the UN Human Rights Council met on Thursday in Geneva, prompted by increasing concern over atrocities against civilians linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. UNTV CH

War in Ukraine presenting ‘child protection, child rights crisis’, senior United Nations official tells Security Council.

At the bi-weekly press briefing on Tuesday, Matilda Bogner, Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, briefed journalists on the violations perpetrated in the past two months in Ukraine. UNTV CH

Informing the Security Council that, so far, nearly 500 civilians have been evacuated from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol and the Azovstal plant, the United Nations' Secretary-General, António Guterres, said that "it is good to know that even in these times of hyper-communications, silent diplomacy is still possible and is sometimes the only effective way to produce results." UNIFEED

Briefing by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Representative and President of the Security Council for the month of May, on the Council's programme of work for May.

During his briefing to the Security Council concerning the court’s cases in Libya, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan said that “in these types of crimes, we simply can't act alone.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres visited sites of suspected war crimes in Ukraine where he condemned the “evil” acts committed against civilians and urged criminal accountability. OCHA

International Criminal Court Prosecutor pledges to deliver justice against crimes committed in Libya, briefing Security Council on new investigation strategy.

Following an Arria Formula meeting of the Security Council on the situation in Ukraine, ICC Prosecutor Karim Asad Ahmad Khan said, “this is not really a time for talking. It's a time for action. International law cannot be a passive spectator. It can't be sedentary it needs to move with alacrity to protect and to insist on accountability.” UNIFEED