The second floor included the atrium viewing balcony, two art galleries, a temporary exhibition area and the permanent Crimes against Humanity exhibition.
Pillay said she recommended that the council refer Syria to the International Criminal Court, the permanent war crimes tribunal, for investigation of possible crimes against humanity.
The ICC, the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, opened in July 2002 to prosecute the perpetrators of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Syria is not a party to the International Criminal Court the permanent war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.
The same day, the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world's first permanent war-crimes tribunal, made its first arrest.
As the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, the court is intended to try the worst human rights offenses.
That court, in essence a permanent war crimes tribunal, is intended to make ad hoc tribunals unnecessary.
No longer is the world's first permanent war-crimes tribunal reviled, in Tom DeLay's phrase, as "Kofi Annan's kangaroo court", to which America would remain forever opposed.
IT WAS not the best way for the world's first permanent war-crimes tribunal to go about proving itself to an often sceptical world.
Thomas Lubanga, the former head of the Union of Congolese Patriots UPCC), appeared before the court six years after the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal was set up in The Hague.
