Amal Clooney asks the UN to defend Ukraine

Amal Clooney has joined the international legal working group urging UN member countries to fight for Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion.

The wife of actor George Clooney is a renowned international human rights lawyer.Yesterday, she went to the UN in New York to plead the Ukrainian cause.

Amal Clooney denounced the war crimes committed by Vladimir Putin ‘s regime in Ukraine, calling the Russian invasion « aggressive and outrageous ». The lawyer implored the UN to fight for justice and to hold accountable the perpetrators of these crimes.

The lawyer said at the informal meeting of the UN Security Council that Ukraine is now a « slaughterhouse in the heart of Europe ».

Amal Clooney, who is part of an international legal working group advising Ukraine on how to ensure accountability for Ukrainian victims in domestic courts, wants to ensure that evidence of war crimes committed in Ukraine does not remain shelved – as it does for victims of Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

Addressing the gathering, the lawyer « fears that you (the UN) will be busy and distracted and that every day the coverage of the war will be a little less and people will become a little more insensitive to the war. »

« And that Ukraine is left alone to prosecute the perpetrators of these atrocities. We can’t let that happen, » the lawyer said.

Amal Clooney recalled that Russian troops have been accused of raping women and girls in the streets, torturing and killing civilians. She also pointed out that Putin’s forces bombed a theater in the southern city of Mariupol, where hundreds of civilians, including children, had taken refuge.