(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) 17 December 2015 The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution in which it requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to urgently organize and dispatch a mission to Burundi to swiftly investigate violations and abuses of human rights with a view to preventing the further deterioration of the human rights situation. In a resolution on preventing the deterioration of the human rights situation in Burundi, the Council strongly condemned the ongoing serious violations and abuses of human rights in Burundi by all actors and the excessive use of force by the security forces against demonstrators and other...
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