Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Russia loses bid for seat on UN Human Rights Council

Bravo! To have the country run by a megalomaniac war criminal with international arrest warrant Putin the Terrible on this council would have been a really bad joke!

Who were those 83 people who voted in secret for Russia? Incredible!

"“UN member states sent a strong signal to Russia’s leadership that a government responsible for countless war crimes and crimes against humanity doesn’t belong there,” said Louis Charbonneau, United Nations director at Human Rights Watch, on Tuesday. 

About a year after its invasion of Ukraine, Russia lost its seat on the UN Human Rights Council, a seat it tried to get back in a vote to add two seats to the body. Those seats went instead to Bulgaria (160 votes) and Albania (123 votes), while Russia managed just [???] 83 votes in the secret ballot."

Today's Headlines - 11 Oct

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