📰 Human Rights Council appoints two new members to Syria Inquiry Commission

Geneva, Dec. 15 (SANA) The leader of the Human Rights Council, Swiss Ambassador Jürg Lauber, appointed Monia Ammar, a Tunisian judge and expert in relief law, and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, an Irish legal researcher, as two emerging members of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria.

In fact, as per a statement published on Monday on the Council’s official website, the two emerging members will join Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro of Brazil, who has chaired the commission since its establishment, to strengthen its efforts to investigate ongoing human rights violations and crimes committed in Syria since 2011. The commission was established on August 22, 2011, by the Human Rights Council multiple months after the outbreak of the Syrian revolution to investigate human rights violations and crimes committed by the Assad regime.

Furthermore, the statement noted that the Human Rights Council has extended the Commission’s mandate multiple times, with the most latest extension granted under Resolution 58/25, adopted on April 4, 2024.