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A United Nations fact-finding mission, also called a United Nations commission of inquiry, [1] is a United Nations mission carried out with the intention to discover facts. [2] Fact-finding missions have been sent by the UN to a number of conflict areas over the past 50 years, on a case-by-case basis.
The government's militarized response in minority-populated regions resulted in the highest number of deaths and injuries among these communities. The Fact-Finding Mission emphasized the urgent need to address and end the longstanding discrimination against Iran's ethnic and religious minorities. [2]
The UN send a first visiting mission. A separate fact-finding mission was mandated by the Security Council but blocked by Israel, a move condemned in General Assembly resolution 10/10 (May 2002). [48] This mission was replaced by a report [49] which was widely commented in the media. Many observers noted that the UN dropped the accusations of ...
8 March – A UN fact-finding mission probe finds that human rights violations committed by the Iranian government amount to crimes against humanity. [21] 29 March – Pouria Zeraati, an anti-Iranian regime journalist working for Iran International, is stabbed by unidentified attackers in London. He is taken to hospital, where he is in stable ...
The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, also known as the Goldstone Report, was a United Nations fact-finding mission established in April 2009 pursuant to Resolution A/HRC/RES/S-9/1 of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) of 12 January 2009, following the Gaza War as an independent international fact-finding mission "to investigate all violations of ...
The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict was a United Nations fact-finding mission established by a resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on 23 July 2014 to investigate "all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law... in the context of the military operations conducted since 13 June 2014" in the ...
Jahangir served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion from August 2004 to July 2010, including serving on the U.N. panel for inquiry into Sri Lankan human rights violations and on a United Nations fact-finding mission on Israeli settlements.
Following the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, [1] the United Nations Human Rights Council voted on 27 May 2021 to set up a United Nations fact-finding mission to investigate possible war crimes and other abuses committed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territories, [2] the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.