“There is not a single warring party that respects the rules of engagement”

In the four years since the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic began investigating human rights violations in the country, the armed conflict has steadily grown more deadly for the Syrian people.

On 23 March 2016 at Sciences Po, Paulo Pinheiro, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, presented the conclusions of the Commission’s latest report. Watch the video with Paulo Pinheiro and former UN Under-Secretary-General Alvaro de Soto.

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro has chaired the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria since September 2011. He was appointed by the UN Secretary-General to prepare the World Report on Violence against Children, 2006, after serving as UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Burundi, 1995-1998 and later in Myanmar, 2000-2008, and as a member of UN Commissions of Inquiry on Timor Leste, 2005 and Togo, 2000. He has taught at the University of São Paulo, Brazil; Brown, Notre Dame and Columbia, USA; Oxford, UK; and EHESS, France. Pinheiro has also served as Brazilian secretary of state for human rights. He obtained his PHD in Political Science at Sciences Po in 1971.
 
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