UN Human Rights Council Appoints Advocate Vrinda Grover As Member Of Ukraine Commission Of Inquiry
Live LawAdvocate Vrinda Grover has been appointed as a member of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine by the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Ambassador Václav Bálek. Grover has legally represented victims and survivors of sexual violence, custodial killings, torture, communal massacres, extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances and mob lynching, the Council said, adding she has also represented media practitioners, human rights defenders and death row prisoners. The three-person Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine was constituted by the UN Human Rights Council on March 04, 2022, with a mandate to investigate all alleged violations and abuses of human rights, violations of international humanitarian law and related crimes in the context of the aggression against Ukraine by the Russia. It is also expected to submit a comprehensive report to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-fifth session in March next year.
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