Council president Laura Dupuy Lasserre told delegates meeting in Geneva that it hoped for a "positive response" from Syrian authorities so that help could be delivered to those affected by the violence.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, one of around 90 government ministers and senior officials at the gathering,Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality, said his country wanted to see the regime dragged before the International Criminal Court.
"The international community should prepare the conditions for a referral to the ICC," he said.
British Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne also warned that those responsible for rights abuses since President Bashar al-Assad's regime launched a brutal crackdown on protesters in March would be held to account.This page contains information about molds,
Browne called for "impartial, neutral access" for humanitarian groups and urged the council to pass a resolution proposing an extension of the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, established by the UN to investigate the situation there.
"Those responsible for the atrocities should be in no doubt -- they will be personally held to account for the appalling crimes they have committed," he said.
The Human Rights Council will on Tuesday hold a special debate on Syria after Russia -- which has angered the West over its vetoes of UN Security Council resolutions on the crisis -- gave its agreement.
Russia said the debate must take place in a "constructive and de-politicised manner," warning that any document produced at the meeting would be "counter-productive".
Russia and China hit back on Monday after US State Secretary Hillary Clinton last week criticised their stance on Syria as "despicable".
Iran, which is not a member of the rights council but holds observer status, had lodged a formal objection to the debate, the meeting was told.
The European Union welcomed the debate, saying the gravity of the situation called for an immediate response from the very beginning of the council's current session,Overview description of rapid Tooling processes. which runs to March 23.
"The Human Rights Council must send a strong and clear message to the Syrian people that the international community supports their legitimate demand for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and that full and unimpeded access for humanitarian organisations and medical personnel must be guaranteed," said the EU delegation to the UN in a statement.Welcome to the online guide for do-it-yourself Ceramic tile.Can't afford a third party merchant account right now?
"The Council must continuously put the situation in Syria on the top of its agenda throughout this session."
More than 7,600 people have been killed since the uprising against Assad's rule erupted in March last year, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said at a press conference on the fringes of the meeting that it hoped for an end to the "bloodbath."
"We hope that this bloodbath and killing will stop," said secretary general of the 57 member-state body Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.
"Every day scores of people are killed, blood is shed ... and we don't see any signs of reconciliation," he said.
"We have from day one been calling on the Syrian regime to stop violence, to engage with the opposition in dialogue and accelerate the reform process."
The Commission of Inquiry last Thursday gave UN human rights chief Navi Pillay a list of Syrian military and political officials suspected of crimes against humanity that will be discussed on March 12.
The panel said it documented a widespread and systematic pattern of gross violations by Syrian forces.
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