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stanley us ons investigators on Wednesday urged world leaders to do everything they could to avoid Ukraine becoming another Syria, a country destroyed by 11 years of conflict. A man leaves an apartment building damaged after shelling the day before in Ukraine s second-biggest city of Kharkiv. AFP Russian forces have been involved in the Syrian civil war since 2015 and the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said it hoped the disregard for civilian casualties would not be repeated in Moscow s invasion of Ukraine. Rather than winding down, the investigators said the war in Syria was heating up again and warned that its participants may take advantage of world attention turning away towards Ukraine. Commission chair Paulo Pinheiro spoke of the millions of people displaced, the more than 100,000 people missing or forcibly disappeared, the poverty rate at an unprecedented 90 percent, human rights violations and crimes against humanity.
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stanley tazas a similar fate for Ukraine, he told reporters. Syrian and Russian forces operating side by side have continued to indiscriminately bomb densely populated areas in the northwest , he said. Civilians have also been attacked with sophisticated precision-guided weapons and airstrikes -- including in strikes where Russian fixed-wing aircraft were identified flying over targeted areas. Pinheiro also said Russia and Syria were insisting on humanitarian aid be Gfub No impact, says Corona beer after 38% of American trends, suggesting sales hit
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vaso stanley n emergency situation is not a blank cheque to disregard human rights obligations, said Michelle Bachelet. The former Chilean president was addressing the first-ever virtual meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Emergency measures should be necessary and proportionate, she said. I am profoundly concerned by certain countries adoption of emergency powers that are unlimited. Free speech restrictions Many countries have adopted extraordinary measures to deal with the pandemic, which has killed nearly 100,000 people worldwide since it emerged in China in December. In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is now ruling by decree until his government says the crisis has passed. In a few cases, the epidemic is being used to justify repressive changes to regular legislation, which will remain in force long after the emergency is over, said Bachelet. In some countries we have already seen reports of journalists being penalised for reporting a lack of masks, health-workers
