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Human Rights Council – Accountability High-Level Side Event

At the Human Rights Council side event, Maimouna Al-Ammar called for stronger international accountability in Syria, urging the UN to act on detainee releases and to ensure crimes against children are brought before the UN Security Council and the ICC.

  • March 15, 2021

Ensuring Accountability for Human Rights Violations

Participation by: Maimouna Al-Ammar

March 15, 2021

The event was moderated by the UK Ambassador for Human Rights and focused on accountability in Syria after 10 years of war. Maimouna Al-Ammar represented Child Guardians (then Hurras Network), explaining what accountability means for Syrians and advocating for a UN resolution to release all detainees and forcibly disappeared from illegal Syrian detention centers.

Al-Ammar called upon the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria to increase accountability mechanisms, clearly attribute crimes to their actual perpetrators, and establish comprehensive reporting whereby crimes and violations against children are reported to the UN Security Council and raised before the International Criminal Court to seek justice for victims.

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