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Urgent debate on “Protection of Children and Educational Institutions in International Armed Conflicts: The Aerial Attacks on Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ School in Minab, Iran, as a Grave Breach of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law”
Speakers:
Sidharto Reza Suryodipuro, President of the UN Human Rights Council
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Farida Shaheed, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, on behalf of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures
Mohaddeseh Fallahat, representative of civil society from the Islamic Republic of Iran
Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran (country concerned)
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