{"id":118149,"date":"2017-09-16T22:39:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T02:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=118149"},"modified":"2017-09-16T22:39:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T02:39:21","slug":"un-may-vote-soon-to-help-iraq-collect-evidence-against-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/16\/un-may-vote-soon-to-help-iraq-collect-evidence-against-is\/","title":{"rendered":"UN may vote soon to help Iraq collect evidence against IS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_118150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118150\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1200px-UN-Sicherheitsrat_-_UN_Security_Council_-_New_York_City_-_2014_01_06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118150\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1200px-UN-Sicherheitsrat_-_UN_Security_Council_-_New_York_City_-_2014_01_06.jpg\" alt=\"The Security Council is putting the final touches on a resolution that would authorize U.N. investigators to help Iraq collect evidence to prosecute extremists from the Islamic State group for possible war crimes. (Photo By Neptuul - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1200px-UN-Sicherheitsrat_-_UN_Security_Council_-_New_York_City_-_2014_01_06.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1200px-UN-Sicherheitsrat_-_UN_Security_Council_-_New_York_City_-_2014_01_06-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1200px-UN-Sicherheitsrat_-_UN_Security_Council_-_New_York_City_-_2014_01_06-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1200px-UN-Sicherheitsrat_-_UN_Security_Council_-_New_York_City_-_2014_01_06-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Security Council is putting the final touches on a resolution that would authorize U.N. investigators to help Iraq collect evidence to prosecute extremists from the Islamic State group for possible war crimes. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=32410206\">(Photo By Neptuul &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Security Council is putting the final touches on a resolution that would authorize U.N. investigators to help Iraq collect evidence to prosecute extremists from the Islamic State group for possible war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>A council diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because negotiations are private, said Saturday the council hopes to vote next Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The draft resolution would ask Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to establish an investigative team to assist Iraq in preserving evidence \u201cthat may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide\u201d committed by IS.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari wrote to Guterres last month saying it was working on a draft resolution with Britain. Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney had urged Iraq&#8217;s prime minister in March to send a letter seeking U.N. assistance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Security Council is putting the final touches on a resolution that would authorize U.N. investigators to help Iraq collect &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":118150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[14210,1842,11066,24082,10998,22245],"class_list":["post-118149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-evidence","tag-iraq","tag-islamic-state-group","tag-security-council","tag-u-n","tag-war-crimes","mauthors-edith-m-lederer","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}