Russia has been suspended from the United Nations Human Rights Council after invading Ukraine and, as far as I'm concerned, committing multiple war crimes in Ukraine. As you can tell from what I just said, none of this is surprising but I was surprised to see the number of countries that voted against the resolution or decided to abstain. Did your country vote in favor of the resolution to suspend Russia, or against it or did it abstain and, if you vote on it directly, how would you vote?
So what was the final vote and what is the criteria for suspending a country from the UN Human Rights Council? According to this article from the Guardian:
"At a meeting of the UN general assembly on Thursday, 93 members voted in favor of the diplomatic rebuke while 24 were against and 58 abstained."
"This met the required threshold of a two-thirds majority of the assembly members that vote yes or no, with abstentions not counting in the calculation."
This is what Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations had to say after the vote
“War criminals have no place in UN bodies aimed at protecting human rights,” Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, tweeted in response. “Grateful to all member states which … chose the right side of history.”
Okay, how did this process of suspending Russia from the UN Human Rights Council get started?
"The US ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, had launched the effort to suspend Russia from the 47-member human rights council with the world still recoiling from images of mass graves and corpses strewn in the streets of Bucha following Russian soldiers’ retreat."
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s UN ambassador, introducing the resolution before the 193 members of the general assembly, said Russia has committed “horrific human rights violations and abuses that would be equated to war crimes and crimes against humanity”.
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https://onedirectdemocracy.com/policy-listings/what-should-the-criteria-be-for-suspending-nations-from-the-unhcr/
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