The UN Human Rights Council has approved a resolution in favor of an international commission of inquiry into human rights violations during the war in Ukraine.
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Objective: that violations do not go unpunished. The UN Human Rights Council appointed a Norwegian judge on Wednesday March 30 to lead the investigation into violations committed by Russia during the war in Ukraine. Erik Mose, a former judge at the Supreme Court of Norway and the European Court of Human Rights, who also presided over the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, has been appointed chairman of the newly created independent international commission of inquiry .
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Two other personalities will be part of this commission: Jasminka Dzumhur, human rights ombudsman from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Colombian Pablo de Greiff, who has been the United Nations’ main expert for the promotion of truth, justice and repairs.
The three investigators will be responsible for “collect, collate and analyze evidence of (…) violations” of human rights and international humanitarian law resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with a view to future trials, and to identify those responsible for these violations “so that they have to answer for their actions”.
Thousands of people have been killed since the invasion began on February 24 and more than four million Ukrainians have fled their country. The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) is also investigating alleged war crimes in Ukraine.