By Stephanie Nebehay and Emma FargeGENEVA (Reuters) -All sides in the deepening conflict in northern Ethiopia are committing severe human rights violations and should pull back from their year-old war, the United Nations said on Friday. This is tantamount to enforced disappearance, and a matter of very grave concern," she told a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council. CLOSE VOTE SEEN ON RESOLUTIONThe forum will consider a draft resolution brought by the European Union that condemns violations by all sides. He added that the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission had already worked with the U.N rights office to investigate accusations of abuses, and was ready to do so again. That joint investigation published last month found that all sides in Tigray's conflict had committed violations that may amount to war crimes.

Source: Ethiopian News December 17, 2021 11:36 UTC