UN Human Rights Council Appoints Advocate Vrinda Grover As Member Of Ukraine Commission Of Inquiry

"A practicing advocate in India, Grover has more than 34 years of experience in constitutional law, criminal law and human rights. She has appeared as counsel in landmark cases before the Trial Courts, High Courts and the Supreme Court of India as well as before commissions of inquiry and quasi-judicial authorities," the Council said in a press release.

Grover has legally represented victims and survivors of sexual violence, custodial killings, torture, communal massacres, extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances and mob lynching, the Council said, adding she has also represented media practitioners, human rights defenders and death row prisoners.

The three-person Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine was constituted by the UN Human Rights Council on March 04, 2022, with a mandate to investigate all alleged violations and abuses of human rights, violations of international humanitarian law and related crimes in the context of the aggression against Ukraine by the Russia.

In April, the Council renewed the mandate of the Commission for a further period of one year. Grover will join Erik Møse (Norway) and Pablo de Greiff (Colombia) who have been serving as Chair and Commissioner of the Commission of Inquiry since March 2022.

The Commission is scheduled to present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-fourth session in September and later submit a report to the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session in October 2023. It is also expected to submit a comprehensive report to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-fifth session in March next year.