GENEVA – The United Nations' human rights body has approved a compromise resolution calling for a group of "eminent international and regional experts" to monitor and report on rights abuses in war-torn Yemen.
Saudi Arabia and other Arab states presented the amended draft resolution that won by-consensus agreement by the Human Rights Council on Friday. It will give the strongest international component yet to an examination of rights violations in a country that the U.N. says faces the world's greatest humanitarian disaster.
The council resolution capped intense closed-door negotiations to bridge a divide between a version promoted by the Netherlands and Canada, which had sought an international, independent Commission of Inquiry on Yemen, and the less-intrusive Arab proposal.
It was perhaps the most contentious issue during a three-week session that ended Friday.
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