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Top UN Human Rights Body Orders Inquiry Into Syrian Violence

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–23 August 2011.  

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Human Rights Council in session in Geneva

The top United Nations human rights body today called for an immediate end to all violence in Syria and decided to dispatch an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate alleged abuses committed during the Government’s crackdown on protesters.

In a resolution adopted at the end of a two-day special session, the Geneva-based Human Rights Council also strongly condemnedthe “continued grave and systematic…

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