(Geneva) - The United Nations Human Rights Council took positive steps to respond to human rights emergencies in Kyrgyzstan and Somalia in its session that ended on June 18, 2010, Human Rights Watch said today. But the council's failure to act on Iran and its weak response to the situation in Afghanistan indicate that the body is still taking a piecemeal approach to fulfilling its mandate, Human Rights Watch said.
The council condemned the ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan and called on its government to conduct a full and transparent investigation into the events of April 7 that led to the ouster of the previous government and the ongoing ethnic violence, while also agreeing to examine the situation in Somalia during its next session. The council also decided to send a fact-finding mission "to investigate violations of international law resulting from Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance" on May 31.
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