On June 23, 2017, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution directing the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to send a team of international experts to investigate alleged human rights violations and abuses in the central Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to the press release, the resolution requests the international experts be sent “to collect and preserve information, to determine the facts and circumstances in accordance with international standards and practice concerning alleged human rights violations and abuses, and violations of international humanitarian law in the Kasai regions.” The resolution also urged the DRC government “to organize, as soon as possible, fair trials that respect international standards in the fight against impunity for the atrocities committed in the Kasai provinces” and requested that the UN High Commissioner “provide the necessary technical assistance and advisory services to assist the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to complete its investigatory work concerning allegations of violations and abuses committed in the Kasai region.”