Middle East “We need the kind of sustained period of calm that a nationwide ceasefire would ensure because we need cooperation to take place across the ... as well as roughly 26 million medical procedures. Meanwhie, Karen Abuzayd, Member of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, recorded the video below on the effects of COVID-19 in Syria. ...

Mr. Guterres was joined in his call for an end to the hostilities by a host of other senior UN officials who earlier in the day expressed deep concern at the situation, particulalry that women ... had the means to investigate these attacks and ensure justice for victims, he noted, such as the  Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria  - which was set up by and reports regularly to the Human Rights Council - and the International, ...

Global Multilateralism must weather ‘challenges of today and tomorrow’: Guterres  [scald=609631:un_news_medium {"additionalClasses":""}] In a speech to the Paris Peace ... conditions of this highly vulnerable group.  Following the Turkish incursion into northern Syria last month, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria reported that  more than 100,000 people,  mostly women and children with presumed links to ISIL ...

... international human rights law, which includes providing access to aid agencies supporting people in need. “Hundreds of thousands of civilians in northern Syria are now in harm's way. Civilians and civilian infrastructure must not be a ... for the resurgence of the extremist group ISIL, or Daesh, according to the members of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry investigating violations committed in the eight-year long Syrian crisis. “The last thing Syrians need now is a ...