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The Mission found that State authorities in Iran were responsible for egregious human rights violations in connection with the protests that started on 16 September 2022. OHCHR

South Africa addressed the United Nations’ highest court in a bid to end the mass killing of civilians in Gaza, accusing Israel of carrying out genocide against Palestinians there – a claim that Israel has strongly denied. ICJ

UN Human Rights spokesperson Liz Throssell said, “Today, we have published a report into the events of 5 October that concludes there are reasonable grounds to believe that the missile was launched by Russian armed forces, and that there was no indication of military personnel or any other legitimate military targets at or adjacent to the café at the time of the attack.” UNTV CH / FILE

Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan said, “the repetitive aggression of Azerbaijan against the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia and military attacks against the people of Nagorno-Karabakh significantly disrupts peace and stability in our region, massively violates human rights and humanitarian law representing existential threat for Armenians.” UNIFEED

Iran must end its continuing crackdown on peaceful protesters and stop the executions of people sentenced to death in connection with the protests that followed the death in custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini last September, said on Wednesday the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on the Islamic Republic of Iran. UNTV CH

The IAEA has finished its independent assessment of Japan’s plans to release the treated water stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. IAEA

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 UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, said that all efforts by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Technical Secretariat to organize the next round of consultations between the Declaration Assessment Team (DAT) and the Syrian National Authority continue to be unsuccessful. 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

The most serious human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran over the past four decades have been committed since the death in police custody of Jina Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022, including possible crimes against humanity, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran said today to media at the United Nations in Geneva. UNTV CH