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The UN Security Council [official site] on Saturday
The continued destruction during the war in Syria continues as an international human rights disaster. US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday called [JURIST report] for an investigation of alleged war crimes committed against Syrian civilians by both Russia and the Syrian regime. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein cautioned [JURIST report] Russia Tuesday against the continued use of incendiary weapons in the fight for Aleppo. A UN children’s rights expert on Monday stated [JURIST report] that Syria’s continued infliction of harm on children is a “brutal abdication of human rights obligations they have committed to respect.”