Jamey Keaten
CORRECTING DATE TO 27 - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, is displayed on a screen as she delivers her speech during a special session of the UN Human Rights Council to discuss situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, May 27, 2021. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP) May 27, 2021 - 11:38 AM
GENEVA (AP) â The top U.N. human rights body on Thursday passed a resolution aimed to intensify scrutiny of Israel s treatment of Palestinians, after the U.N. rights chief said Israeli forces may have committed war crimes and faulted the militant group Hamas for violations of international law in their 11-day war this month.
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May 27, 2021
Ambassador and Permanent Representative, UK Mission to the WTO, UN and Other International Organisations (Geneva), Simon Manley CMG
LONDON, England – The UK’s ambassador to the UN and WTO in Geneva, Simon Manley, delivered this statement during the Special Session on Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem:
“The United Kingdom strongly welcomes the ceasefire in Israel and Gaza. The foreign secretary Dominic Raab travelled to the region this week to support efforts to ensure the ceasefire is permanent, which is a necessary step to ending the cycle of violence.
I offer Boris Johnson’s deepest condolences to the families of those civilians killed. Each one of those deaths was and is a tragedy.
GENEVA, May 27 (Reuters) - The United States called on Thursday for the World Health Organization to carry out a second phase of its investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, with independent experts given full access to original data and samples in China.
The top United Nations human rights body on Thursday passed a resolution aimed to intensify scrutiny of Israel s treatment of Palestinians, after the UN rights chief said Israeli forces may have committed war crimes and faulted the militant group Hamas for violations of international law in their 11-day war this month.
The 24-9 vote, with 14 abstentions, capped a special Human Rights Council session on the rights situation faced by Palestinians. The session and the resolution were arranged by Organisation of Islamic Cooperation countries, which have strongly supported Palestinians in their struggles with Israel.
The resolution, which was denounced by Israel, calls for the creation of a permanent “Commission of Enquiry” the most potent tool at the council s disposal to monitor and report on rights violations in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. It would be the first such COI with an “ongoing” mandate.