Ivory Coast is slipping down
Mar. 25th, 2011 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nairiporterUN rights body to send inquiry team to Ivory Coast
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/25/ivorycoast-un-rights-idUSLDE72O1IU20110325
The U.N. Human Rights Council agreed on Friday to send an independent commission to investigate killings and other crimes in Ivory Coast which is on the verge of civil war.
The 47-member forum unanimously approved a resolution put by Nigeria on behalf of African countries which condemned atrocities and called for a halt to the violence.
Earlier, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said the estimated death toll in Ivory Coast's post-election violence had reached 462. Her office was also investigating allegations that another 200 African nationals -- from Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Guinea and Togo -- were killed near the western town of Guiglo, a spokesman said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/25/ivorycoast-un-rights-idUSLDE72O1IU20110325
The U.N. Human Rights Council agreed on Friday to send an independent commission to investigate killings and other crimes in Ivory Coast which is on the verge of civil war.
The 47-member forum unanimously approved a resolution put by Nigeria on behalf of African countries which condemned atrocities and called for a halt to the violence.
Earlier, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said the estimated death toll in Ivory Coast's post-election violence had reached 462. Her office was also investigating allegations that another 200 African nationals -- from Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Guinea and Togo -- were killed near the western town of Guiglo, a spokesman said.
