The U.N.’s human rights office announced this week that it would no longer keep count of the death toll in Syria’s ongoing civil war due to an inability to keep precise statistics. Many of the sources the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has used in the past are proving to be unreliable, according to The Associated Press. The
UN: Death Tally in Syria’s Civil War to be Discontinued
The decision means it’s impossible to obtain accurate figures in the conflict, and the U.N. finds itself ineffective in a worsening humanitarian situation.