She said, "Ukraine today is an altar in the heart of Europe."
Amal Clooney lobbies at the United Nations for justice in Ukraine
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Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has urged UN member states to focus on international justice for war crimes in Ukraine, so that evidence is "not stored", as happened with ISIS victims in Iraq and Syria.
"Today's Ukraine is an altar in the heart of Europe," Clooney said at an informal meeting of the United Nations Security Council on accountability in Ukraine.
At the meeting organized by France and Albania, the day before yesterday, Clooney referred to the Security Council's vote in 2017 to approve a measure that she helped mobilize support for: the creation of a United Nations team to collect and preserve evidence of possible international crimes committed at the hands of ISIS. in Iraq.
This was the same year in which her son and daughter were born to American actor George Clooney.
"My children are now about five years old, and most of the evidence collected by the United Nations is stored so far, because there is no international court trying (ISIS)," she said.
These crimes do not fall under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, which considers war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and crimes of aggression, because Iraq and Syria are not members of the court.
Clooney is part of an international legal task force advising Ukraine on ensuring accountability for Ukrainian victims in national jurisdictions, and working with the International Criminal Court, which is based in The Hague.
The court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, opened an investigation into Ukraine a week after the Russian invasion began on February 24.
"This is a time when we need to mobilize the law and send it into battle," Khan told the UN meeting.
Not on the side of Ukraine against the Russian Federation, or on the side of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, but on the side of humanity.”
Russian diplomat Sergei Leonidchenko described the ICC as a "political tool".
He accused the United States and Britain of hypocrisy for supporting the court's investigation into Ukraine after they did "everything imaginable to protect their militaries".
The Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office, Irina Venediktova, told Reuters that it was preparing charges of war crimes against at least seven Russian servicemen.
• Clooney is part of an international legal task force advising Ukraine on ensuring accountability for Ukrainian victims in national jurisdictions and working with the International Criminal Court based in The Hague.
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