Head of IIIM’s speech at the Brussels VI side event

In the course of the side event “Moving Forward on Truth and Justice: Addressing the crisis of missing persons and detention in Syria”, Head of IIIM Catherine Marchi-Uhel delivered a speech on the intersection between criminal accountability and the search for missing persons.

The side event was held on May 6th, 2022, on the margins of the Brussels VI Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region.

The text of the speech can be accessed through this link.

Text of the Head of the IIIM’s address to the UN General Assembly, presenting the IIIM’s 8th report

Text of the address by Catherine Marchi-Uhel, the Head of the IIIM, presenting the IIIM’s 8th report to the UN General Assembly on April 1, 2022. Ms. Marchi-Uhel gave the oral report, at the 65th plenary meeting in New York, under the agenda item “Prevention of Armed Conflict” and was followed by a debate of Member States.

General Assembly: 65th plenary meeting, 76th session.

Sub-item A of Agenda Item 35: “Prevention of Armed Conflict”.

The text of the address can be accessed through this link.

The records of the meeting and the UN summary can be accessed through this link.

United Nations Security Council Arria-formula meeting on accountability in the Syrian Arab Republic

Head of the IIIM briefs the UN Security Council Arria Formula. Sponsored by Council members, Estonia, France, United Kingdom and the United States, with additional co-sponsors Belgium, Canada, Germany, Georgia, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Qatar, Sweden and Turkey.  On the need for increased efforts by the Council to establish full accountability for the most serious international crimes committed in the Syrian Arab Republic.

For the concept note of this event, click here.

To watch the event’s video, click here.