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BREAKING: Russia to be ousted from U.N. Human Rights Council. @USAmbUN will lead the push with Ukraine & European states. It& #39;s guaranteed to pass because only a handful will vote No & abstentions won& #39;t count for required 2/3 majority. More on our campaign: https://unwatch.org/new-push-to-oust-russia-from-u-n-rights-council/">https://unwatch.org/new-push-... https://twitter.com/biannagolodryga/status/1510941272185450501">https://twitter.com/biannagol...
It& #39;s happening: Russia to be ousted from the U.N. Human Rights Council. First time since Qaddafi was expelled in 2011. Thank you to 100,000+ people who shared our appeal & journalists who covered the story @cnn @johnberman @newday @bennyavni @NewYorkSun https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1510360679651360771">https://twitter.com/HillelNeu...
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1/ When Vladimir Putin& #39;s Russia ran for election to the UNHRC in 2020, our Geneva-based human rights organization UN Watch led the opposition and immediately exposed the Kremlin& #39;s lies. https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1256183251519102976
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1/ When Vladimir Putin& #39;s Russia ran for election to the UNHRC in 2020, our Geneva-based human rights organization UN Watch led the opposition and immediately exposed the Kremlin& #39;s lies. https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1256183251519102976
:1/ When Vladimir Putin& #39;s Russia ran for election to the UNHRC in 2020, our Geneva-based human rights organization UN Watch led the opposition and immediately exposed the Kremlin& #39;s lies. https://twitter.com/HillelNeu... href=" http://unwatch.org/cubarussiasaudi/">https://unwatch.org/cubarussi..." title="Quick background https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="collectie" aria-label="Emoji: collectie">:1/ When Vladimir Putin& #39;s Russia ran for election to the UNHRC in 2020, our Geneva-based human rights organization UN Watch led the opposition and immediately exposed the Kremlin& #39;s lies. https://twitter.com/HillelNeu... href=" http://unwatch.org/cubarussiasaudi/">https://unwatch.org/cubarussi...">
:1/ When Vladimir Putin& #39;s Russia ran for election to the UNHRC in 2020, our Geneva-based human rights organization UN Watch led the opposition and immediately exposed the Kremlin& #39;s lies. https://twitter.com/HillelNeu... href=" http://unwatch.org/cubarussiasaudi/">https://unwatch.org/cubarussi..." title="Quick background https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="collectie" aria-label="Emoji: collectie">:1/ When Vladimir Putin& #39;s Russia ran for election to the UNHRC in 2020, our Geneva-based human rights organization UN Watch led the opposition and immediately exposed the Kremlin& #39;s lies. https://twitter.com/HillelNeu... href=" http://unwatch.org/cubarussiasaudi/">https://unwatch.org/cubarussi...">
2/ Our objections to electing #Russia to the #UN Human Rights Council were published as official documents by the United Nations and circulated to diplomats.
http://undocs.org/A/HRC/45/NGO/119">https://undocs.org/A/HRC/45/...
http://undocs.org/A/HRC/45/NGO/119">https://undocs.org/A/HRC/45/...
3/ We invited Russian dissident @vkaramurza—twice poisoned in Moscow—to appeal to the United Nations NOT to elect the Putin regime to the world& #39;s highest human rights body. He said it would be “an embodiment of the proverbial fox guarding the henhouse.” ">https://youtu.be/InzTuoWwp...
4/ On February 24th, as soon as Russia began its latest invasion and assault on Ukraine, we led the campaign in Geneva to expel Vladimir Putin& #39;s regime from the United Nations Human Rights Council. https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1497029346321649664">https://twitter.com/HillelNeu...
5/ As we predicted, the international community had to wait for a new atrocity—the slaughter in Bucha—to take action to expel Russia from the UN& #39;s top human rights body. https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1508834346941169670">https://twitter.com/HillelNeu...
6/ We took the floor last week at the United Nations Human Rights Council to formally demand that they remove Russia. Our appeal entered the record: https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1509462892483076099">https://twitter.com/HillelNeu...
7/ We drafted a resolution to remove Russia and circulated it to diplomats, calling on @USAmbUN to take the lead at the General Assembly. Suspending Putin& #39;s regime requires a 2/3 vote of those "present and voting," meaning abstentions don& #39;t count. https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1510444170682454016">https://twitter.com/HillelNeu...
8/ Our campaign got a key boost when a bipartisan group of 12 U.S. senators urged Washington to take action to remove Russia from the Human Rights Council.
Still, "the American legation was non-committal in response." @bennyavni @NewYorkSun https://www.nysun.com/article/senate-is-rebelling-against-russias-membership-in-the-uns-human-rights-council">https://www.nysun.com/article/s...
Still, "the American legation was non-committal in response." @bennyavni @NewYorkSun https://www.nysun.com/article/senate-is-rebelling-against-russias-membership-in-the-uns-human-rights-council">https://www.nysun.com/article/s...
9/ In an extraordinary move, the office of U.N. Secretary-General @antonioguterres intervened to try and stop our campaign, saying they had a "certain level of concern" and that ousting Russia from the Human Rights Council would "set a dangerous precedent." https://twitter.com/UNWatch/status/1509648097047191557">https://twitter.com/UNWatch/s...
10/ We pushed back: Failure to enforce the Human Rights Council& #39;s own rules—members must uphold highest standards, gross abusers face suspension—is what would be dangerous. And precedent was on our side: UN removed Qaddafi& #39;s Libya in 2011 for atrocities. https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1510361430146564105">https://twitter.com/HillelNeu...
11/ UN reps fear our campaign opens a can of worms. Others on UNHRC:
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