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In Geneva, a special session of the UN Human Rights Council opens to discuss the situation in Sudan. More than 750 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been displaced in the fighting that began on April 15 between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk condemns "this wanton violence, in which both sides have trampled international humanitarian law, notably the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution". IMAGES
During the opening of the 51st session of the Human Rights Council, the assembly marks a minute of silence in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, at the request of the British delegate Simon Manley. IMAGES
Nasir Ahmad Andisha, the Afghan ambassador to the UN in Geneva, says that the special session of the UN Human Rights Council on Afghanistan must deliver 'a strong message' that 'abuses and violation of human rights law and international humanitarian law undermine world peace and justice and will have consequences'. SOUNDBITE
The 45th session of the UN Human rights Council opens in Geneva, with allegations of torture in the crackdown on protests in Belarus high on the agenda. IMAGES
38th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in Switzerland. IMAGES
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