BREAKING: The @UN General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the world organisation’s leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers in Ukraine.In favour: 93Against: 24 Abstained: 58 pic.twitter.com/oYwbryFWc8 — Mikhail Khodorkovsky (@khodorkovsky_en) April 7, 2022
BREAKING: The @UN General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the world organisation’s leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers in Ukraine.In favour: 93Against: 24 Abstained: 58 pic.twitter.com/oYwbryFWc8
— Mikhail Khodorkovsky (@khodorkovsky_en) April 7, 2022
The word is “suspend” not “expel” or “remove” so I assume that means it’s temporary, but anyway, there it is. Of course other flagrant rights-violators remain.
The UN General Assembly has suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council after evidence of atrocities in its invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/rE5b7rXh1h — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 7, 2022
The UN General Assembly has suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council after evidence of atrocities in its invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/rE5b7rXh1h
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 7, 2022
EARLIER: Ukraine's President Zelenskiy called on Russians to protest against the war following the emergence of gruesome videos and photos of bodies from the Kyiv suburb, Bucha. He addressed them in their native language saying now was a “crucial moment” https://t.co/6XyUzlvJ7p pic.twitter.com/JqZCfSNJwa — Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) April 7, 2022
EARLIER: Ukraine's President Zelenskiy called on Russians to protest against the war following the emergence of gruesome videos and photos of bodies from the Kyiv suburb, Bucha.
He addressed them in their native language saying now was a “crucial moment” https://t.co/6XyUzlvJ7p pic.twitter.com/JqZCfSNJwa
— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) April 7, 2022
” Of course other flagrant rights-violators remain.”
Cf: the actions of the Saudi government in Yemen.
” Of course other flagrant rights-violators remain.”
Cf: the actions of the Saudi government in Yemen.