Chaloka Beyani, Associate Professor in the Law Department, addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday 20 January 2014 on the situation in the Central African Republic in his capacity as Chair of the Coordination Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Special fProcedures. A copy of the statement is available here.
In the same capacity, on 21 January 2014, Dr Beyani also issued a press release and a letter to the parties to the Geneva II talks on the situation in Syria. Copies of the press release and statement are available at:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=14188&LangID=E(open letter);
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=14189&LangID=E (press statement)
Dr Beyani was also recently quoted in Time magazine and the Guardian on the humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic.
