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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's guaranteed to pass because only a handful will vote No & abstentions won'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://twitter.com/biannagolodryga/status/1510941272185450501
It'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
Quick background 
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1/ When Vladimir Putin'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's lies. https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1256183251519102976
http://unwatch.org/cubarussiasaudi/
:1/ When Vladimir Putin'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's lies. https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1256183251519102976
http://unwatch.org/cubarussiasaudi/
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
http://undocs.org/A/HRC/45/NGO/119
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's highest human rights body. He said it would be “an embodiment of the proverbial fox guarding the henhouse.”
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's regime from the United Nations Human Rights Council. https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1497029346321649664
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's top human rights body. https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1508834346941169670
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
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's regime requires a 2/3 vote of those "present and voting," meaning abstentions don't count. https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1510444170682454016
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
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
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
10/ We pushed back: Failure to enforce the Human Rights Council'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's Libya in 2011 for atrocities. https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1510361430146564105
11/ UN reps fear our campaign opens a can of worms. Others on UNHRC:
China—1M muslims in camps
Cuba—tyranny
Eritrea—slave labor
Libya—tortures migrants
Mauritania—slavery
Pakistan—hosts terrorists
Somalia—female genital mutilation
Venezuela—state collapse
China—1M muslims in camps Cuba—tyranny Eritrea—slave labor Libya—tortures migrants Mauritania—slavery Pakistan—hosts terrorists Somalia—female genital mutilation Venezuela—state collapse
