Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney urged countries at the United Nations on Wednesday to focus on international justice for war crimes in Ukraine so evidence does not sit in storage – as it has done for victims of Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria. “Ukraine is, today, a slaughterhouse.
Right in the heart of Europe,” Clooney told an informal U.N. Security Council meeting on accountability in Ukraine, organized by France and Albania.
Clooney recalled a 2017 Security Council vote to approve a measure she helped lobby for – the creation of a U.N. team to collect, preserve and store evidence of possible international crimes committed by Islamic State in Iraq.
It was the same year her son and daughter with U.S. actor George Clooney were born. “My children are now almost 5, and so far most of the evidence collected by the U.N.
Read more on etcanada.com