Africa: Time to Strengthen UN Role in Ending Impunity for Human Rights Violations - UN Experts

22 November 2013

A group of independent United Nations rights experts today called on the Organization to adopt a more central role in the fight against impunity, and urged Member States to strengthen efforts to ensure accountability and justice for human rights violations.

"Ending impunity requires greater scrutiny, prosecution and punishment, and no other international institution is better placed than the United Nations to effectively contribute to this goal," they stressed in a statement to mark the International Day to End Impunity, observed on 23 November.

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