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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 United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran reported that ethnic and religious minorities, particularly Kurds and Baluchis, have faced disproportionate repression during the government's crackdown on protests since 2022.
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 ...
The United Nations Security Council condemned "those acts which resulted in the loss of lives" and called for a prompt investigation conforming to international standards. [204] [226] [227] [228] The UN Human Rights Council called the attack outrageous and dispatched a fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law.
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 ...
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.
A UN fact-finding mission was established under UN Security Council Resolution 1405 (April 19, 2002) into Operation Defensive Shield following Palestinian charges that a massacre had occurred in Jenin, which later proved to be false.