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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.
Iran is a multi-ethnic nation with different ethnic groups that include Persians, Kurds, Lurs, Arabs, Baluchs, Turkmen, and Turkic tribes. The majority of the country (61%) is Persians [1] which makes them the dominant ethnic group in Iran that controls the centers of power in Iran. This control is often exercised by marginalizing and ...
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 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 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The authors: Goldstone, Jilani, and Chinkin. 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 ...
Any UN member state may request the Secretary-General to launch an investigation into a possible biological or chemical weapons use. [1] The Secretary-General has the authority to dispatch a fact-finding mission to the site of the alleged incident, and to report the investigation results to the international community.
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 ...
1979: Invoked by Kurt Waldheim in regards to the Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution. [3] [4] 1989: Invoked by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar in regards to the War of Liberation (1989–1990) in Lebanon, resulting in a UN fact-finding mission. [2] [3] [4]