{"id":1361,"date":"2013-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"in-an-oral-intervention-to-the-human-rights-council-human-rights-organizations-call-for-justice-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"In an Oral Intervention to the Human Rights Council:  Human Rights Organizations Call for Justice in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/english\/File\/OI.HRC24_En.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the oral  intervention<\/a><span dir=\"rtl\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Cairo Institute  for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Human  Rights (EMHRN) and number of Syrian Human Rights Organizations presented an  oral intervention on the ongoing atrocities in Syria to the UN Human Rights  Council today, 17 September 2013.&nbsp; The intervention came in the framework  of the 24th&nbsp;session of the Council, which is currently convened  in Geneva and which is scheduled to continue until 27 September 2013.<\/p>\n<p>  The organizations  began their intervention by condemning the unprecedented chemical assault which  was launched on 21 August 2013 on the Damascus suburb of Al-Ghouta, calling  this assault a blatant crime against humanity.&nbsp; The organizations  expressed their grave concern over the brutal killing of hundreds of civilians  in this attack, among them dozens of women and children.<\/p>\n<p>  However, the  organizations urged that the international community should not focus  exclusively on this chemical attack at the expense of dealing with the  multitude of other grave violations \u2013 often amounting to war crimes and crimes  against humanity \u2013 which continue to be perpetrated on the ground in  Syria.&nbsp; Among these violations are indiscriminate shelling, extrajudicial  executions, widespread torture, sexual violence, arbitrary detention, rape, and  enforced disappearances.<\/p>\n<p>  In light of these  violations, the organizations called on the Council to take the lead in  combating impunity in Syria by resolutely asking the UN Security Council to  refer Syria to the International Criminal Court.&nbsp; They emphasized that all  actors responsible for committing grave violations in Syria must be brought to  justice.<\/p>\n<p>  Finally, the  organizations urged the international community to recall in the context of the  upcoming talks over a peace process for Syria that justice must be achieved  along with peace, for any political process that does not guarantee  accountability and an end to impunity will lead only to further instability and  continued violations in Syria and the broader region.<\/p>\n<p>Source URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cihrs.org\/?p=7263&amp;lang=en\">http:\/\/www.cihrs.org\/?p=7263&amp;lang=en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/english\/File\/OI.HRC24_En.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the oral  intervention<\/a><span dir=\"rtl\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Cairo Institute  for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Human  Rights (EMHRN) and number of Syrian Human Rights Organizations presented an  oral intervention on the ongoing atrocities in Syria to the UN Human Rights  Council today, 17 September 2013.&nbsp; The intervention came in the framework  of the 24th&nbsp;session of the Council, which is currently convened  in Geneva and which is scheduled to continue until 27 September 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thematic_reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}