UN Votes to Suspend Russia From The 'Humans Rights' Council

April 08, 2022

UN Votes to Suspend Russia From The 'Humans Rights' Council

Can you imagine someone who gets rid of the LGBT Community in Chechen and in Jail in Moscow? In a country in which there are no human rights but Putin's Rights since he controls the courts, police, and even the garbage collector.

Un Kicks Out Russia of The Human Rights Council

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Ukraine is asking NATO for more weapons, as the war front shifts away from Kyiv and toward the Donbas and eastern cities that are under siege. In places where fighting has eased, some people are returning home and businesses are trying to get back to work, to keep Ukraine’s economy moving.

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The U.N. General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council on Thursday, approving a resolution that cited reports of “gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights” in Ukraine.

The resolution needed a two-thirds majority of the vote to pass. The tally was 93 in favor and 24 against, with 58 abstentions.

Several countries spoke out against the resolution, such as China, Syria, and Cuba, whose representatives said human rights were being politicized. Others abstained from the vote -- including South Africa, whose representative said it did so because of a lack of due process in determining Russia’s guilt.

Belarus' representative Valentyn Rybakov said his country is “categorically against” the resolution, saying it would demonize and isolate the Russian Federation.

The world is at a critical juncture and the Human Rights Council is in danger of foundering, Ukraine's U.N. Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya said ahead of the vote in Thursday's emergency special session of the General Assembly.

Kyslytsya evoked the council's core goal of preventing genocide as he urged delegations to take the extraordinary step of suspending Russia from the council.

“We are in a unique situation now,” Kyslytsya said, when “a member of the Human Rights Council commits horrific human rights violations and abuses that could be equated to war crimes and crimes against humanity” in another country’s territory.

Saying that thousands of civilians in Bucha and other Ukrainian towns have been killed, tortured, raped, and robbed by Russia’s military, Kyslytsya said the reasons for suspending Russia are “obvious and self-explanatory.”

Russia has repeatedly rejected claims that it has killed or harmed civilians, despite a mounting death toll and images showing Ukrainian residences destroyed by Russian attacks -- and videos of Ukrainians lying dead in the streets in Bucha and elsewhere.

“We don’t target civilian facilities to save as many civilians as possible. That is why our advance is not as rapid as many expected,” Vasily Nebenzya, Russia's ambassador to the U.N., said at a Security Council session on Tuesday. "We are not acting like the Americans and their allies were acting in Iraq when they wiped out entire cities," he added.

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