UN group to monitor Yemen rights abuses

The UN’s human rights chief appoints experts from Tunisia, Britain and Australia to a panel tasked with monitoring and reporting on rights abuses in Yemen.

The UN Human Rights Council in September approved the creation of the group of “eminent international and regional experts.” The high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, says it will be chaired by Kamel Jendoubi of Tunisia and will include Britain’s Charles Garraway and Melissa Parke of Australia.

The group is to submit a report to Zeid by September 2018.

Zeid says its creation “is an important step toward accountability and ending impunity for the serious violations of human rights committed by all sides in Yemen amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in the country, and ensuring justice and remedy for the victims.”

— AP