"The global paralysis on Ethiopia's armed conflict has emboldened human rights abusers to act with impunity and left communities at risk of feeling abandoned," Human Rights Watch's Laetitia Bader said in a report published jointly this week by the organization and Amnesty International. Saying it's not commensurate with the scale of atrocities and violations in Tigray is a gross understatement," Louis Charbonneau, U.N. director at Human Rights Watch, told CBS News on Friday. During the virtual session on Friday, the Human Rights Council voted to adopt a resolution to establish an international commission of experts on Ethiopia to conduct an investigation into allegations of human rights violations and abuses by all parties to the conflict. Lucy McKernan, deputy director of advocacy in Geneva for Human Rights Watch, told CBS News that the vote sent "a message that impunity will no longer be tolerated." But while approval of the resolution may send a strong signal, U.N. diplomats told CBS News that creating and staffing the commission would take time.

Source: Ethiopian News December 17, 2021 17:15 UTC