Lawyer Betty Murungi has been appointed as a member of the Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Ambassador Vojislav Šuc, President of the Human Rights Council, announced the appointment of the three members including David Michael Crane (United States) and Sara Hossain (Bangladesh).
Kaari has practised law at national, regional and international levels. She has been in the management of non-governmental and non-profit organisations.
She serves on the board of the Kenya Human Rights Commission and the Women's Initiative for Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court.
She was also a legal advisor on gender-related crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
From 2009 to 2013, she served as Vice-Chairperson and Commissioner to the Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission of Kenya and as the African representative on the Board of Directors of the Trust Fund for Victims at the International Criminal Court.
Crane will serve as chair of the three-person Commission whose mandated is to investigate all alleged violations and abuses of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
It will also include East Jerusalem, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, in the context of the military assaults on the large-scale civilian protests that began on March 30 2018.
"The Council decided to urgently dispatch an independent, international commission of inquiry at its special session of May 18 2018," Vojislav said in a statement.
Through Human Rights Council resolution S-28/1, the 47-member body mandated the Commission "to establish the facts and circumstances, with assistance from relevant experts and special procedure mandate holders, of the alleged violations and abuses, including those that may amount to war crimes."
The team is also expected "to identify those responsible" for the said abuses.
The Commissioners, who will serve in their personal capacities, were also requested by the Council to make recommendations, in particular on accountability measures, all with a view to avoiding and ending impunity.
The Commission is scheduled to present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its 39th session in September 2018, and a final, written report at its 40th session to be held in March 2019.