UN Human Rights Council Should Move to Investigate Beirut Blast

Click to expand Image High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at a news conference in Khartoum, Sudan, November 16, 2022. © 2022 Marwan Ali/AP Photo Support for an international investigation into the August 2020 blast that tore through Beirut, devastating half the city, killing hundreds, and injuring thousands, is building at the United Nations Human Rights Council. In his opening remarks at the Council last week, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk denounced the lack of accountability for the Beirut port explosion and the repeated interference by Lebanese…

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