The 47 members of the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously agreed to send an emergency mission to Iraq to investigate Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) atrocities, as Baghdad warned the country was “facing a terrorist monster.” They reached their decision after spending the day listening to details of horrendous abuses and crimes attributed to the jihadist group calling itself the Islamic State, including massacres, forced conversions, abductions, slavery, sexual violence and the use of children as soldiers and suicide bombers. The special session was called at Baghdad’s request, with support from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – Britain, China, France, Russia and the US – among other countries. The ISIS has grabbed large swaths of Iraq’s Sunni heartland since June 9.
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