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In Gaza, mounting evidence of famine and widespread starvation

·July 29, 2025·2 min read

According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) platform, two out of three famine thresholds for food consumption have been breached across most of Gaza, with acute malnutrition levels in Gaza City confirming aid agencies’ repeated warnings. “Mounting evidence shows that widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a...

Syria: UN investigators call for protecting evidence amid worsening humanitarian crisis

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·December 24, 2024·2 min read

In parallel, the International, Impartial, and Independent Mechanism for Syria (IIIM) concluded a historic visit to Damascus, emphasizing the urgency of preserving evidence related to the most serious international crimes before it is irretrievably lost. Fuel shortages, disrupted roads Essential services, including hospitals and health centres, are severely impacted, particularly...

Syria: Rights investigators call for protection of evidence, including mass grave sites

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·December 21, 2024·2 min read

A team from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on Syria visited former prisons and detention centres, including the notorious Sednaya and the Military Intelligence Branch 235 prisons. It is the first time the team has been able to access Syria, as the former regime denied all previous requests...

Syria crisis: ‘Key priority’ is preserving evidence of crimes, say UN investigators

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·December 17, 2024·1 min read

The historic shift of power in Syria and the possibility of finally accessing evidence of horrific human rights violations could bring accountability closer than ever – if only proof can be preserved – a top UN investigator said on Tuesday....

Commission of Inquiry finds further evidence of war crimes in Ukraine

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·October 21, 2023·2 min read

The report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, published on Friday, follows a study issued in March. It documents additional indiscriminate attacks with explosive weapons, resulting in deaths, injuries and the destruction and damage of civilian objects. For example, 24 people, mostly women and children, were...

Admissible evidence, competent courts, critical to ensuring justice for ISIL victims in Iraq

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·June 8, 2023·3 min read

Ambassadors were briefed by Christian Ritscher, Special Adviser and Head of the UN Investigative Team to promote accountability for these crimes, UNITAD, established five years ago. The Islamist group declared a self-styled caliphate across parts of Iraq and northern Syria in 2014, before being militarily defeated and driven from Iraq...

Brazil: ‘Racialized’ police killings, evidence reforms are needed, say experts |

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·July 11, 2022·2 min read

“We have repeatedly raised our concerns about the excessive and lethal use of force used by Brazilian law enforcement officials and the disproportionate impact on Brazilians of African descent,” the three experts said in a statement. “However, the latest reports of police brutality appear to show that such human rights...