UN Rights Council neglects duty to probe atrocities in Yemen: Report
‘The UN Human Rights Office has lashed out at the global body’s Human Rights Council for neglecting its responsibility with regard to launching an investigation into the massive rights violations in Yemen.
In a Tuesday report, the UN Human Rights Office urged the Human Rights Council to probe into atrocities committed during what it described as an “entirely man-made catastrophe” in its upcoming meeting this month.
“I …join you in asking why the members of the Human Rights Council are not taking their responsibility and their membership to this body seriously,” the office’s chairman of Middle East and North Africa, Mohammad Ali Alnsour, told reporters.
Alnsour said this was the third time the Council was being asked to launch an investigation into the case.’
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