UNGA - Russian Suspension: Human Rights Body

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Posted: Apr 11, 2022 3:38:07 PM | Last updated: Apr 15, 2022 10:32:03 PM

Posted in Social Issues, United Nations
Countries: All, Russia

by Pascal-Denis Lussier

Another Vote. Deeper Divisions. Clearer Double Standards

Last Thursday, 7-Apr-2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) held a vote on a resolution to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights body.

Per one activist, this act "sent a crystal-clear message to Russia's leadership that a government whose military is routinely committing horrific rights violations has no business" being part of the body.

The UNGA has voted to suspend Russia from the organisation’s leading human rights body amid allegations that its soldiers killed civilians while retreating from the region around Ukraine’s capital.

The high number of abstentions and "no votes" is very telling, in DMS&UY's opinion, as it seems to point to some degree of awareness regarding a double standard that is continually applied throughout the UN, its functions, and international laws, this, despite Russia being one of the five permanent members.This will be examined further in an upcoming post.

For this vote, a set quorum wasn't necessary. Therefore, as long as more were in favour than against, than the abstentions can be viewed as a vote in support of the resolution

The final results were the following:

No Vote Registered: 18 IN FAVOUR: 93 AGAINST: 24 ABSTAINED: 58

Zero Vote Rg.	Abstained	Abstained	Against	In Favour	In Favour	In Favour
Afghanistan	Angola	Mexico	Algeria	Albania	Guatemala	Poland
Armenia	Bahrain	Mongolia	Belarus	Andorra	Haiti	Portugal
Azerbaijan	Bangladesh	Mozambique	Bolivia	Antigua & Barbuda	Honduras	Romania
Benin	Barbados	Nambia	Burundi	Argentina	Hungary	Saint Lucia
Burkina Faso	Belize	Nepal	Central African Republic	Australia	Iceland	Samoa
Djibouti	Bhutan	Niger	China	Austria	Ireland	Serbia
Equatorial Guinea	Botswana	Nigeria	Congo	Bahamas	Israel	Seychelles
Guinea	Brazil	Oman	Cuba	Belgium	Italy	Sierra Leone
Lebanon	Brunei Darussalam	Pakistan	Eritrea	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Jamaica	Slovakia
Mauritania	Cambodia	Qatar	Ethiopia	Bulgaria	Japan	Slovenia
Morocco	Cameroon	Saudi Arabia	Gabon	Canada	Kiribati	Spain
Rwanda	Cape Verde	Senegal	Iran	Chad	Korea, Republic of	Sweden
Sao Tome & Principe	Egypt	Singapore	Kazakhstan	Chile	Latvia	Switzerland
Solomon Islands	El Salvador	South Africa	Kyrgyzstan	Colombia	Liberia	Timor-Leste
Somali	Eswatini	South Sudan	Lao PDR	Comoros	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	Tonga
Turkmenistan	Gambia	Sri Lanka	Mali	Congo, Democratic Republic	Liechtenstein	Turkey
Venezuela	Ghana	St. Kitts and Nevis	Nicaragua	Costa Rica	Lithuania	Ukraine
Zambia	Guinea-Bissau	St. Vincent & the Grenadines	North Korea	Côte D'ivoire	Luxembourg	United Kingdom
	Guyana	Sudan	Russia	Croatia	Malawi	United States of America
	India	Suriname	Syria	Cyprus	Malta	Uruguay
	Indonesia	Tanzania, United Republic of	Tajikistan	Czech Republic	Mauritius	North Macedonia
	Iraq	Thailand	Uzbekistan	Denmark	Moldova	Somaliland
	Jordan	Togo	Viet Nam	Dominica	Montenegro	Western Sahara
	Kenya	Trinidad & Tobago	Zimbabwe	Dominican Republic	Myanmar	Swaziland
	Kuwait	Tunisia		Ecuador	Netherlands	North Macedonia
	Lesotho	Uganda		Estonia	New Zealand	Marshall Islands
	Madagascar	United Arab Emirates		Fiji	Norway	Micronesia
	Malaysia	Vanuatu		Finland	Panama	Monaco
	Maldives	Yemen		France	Papua New Guinea	Nauru
				Georgia	Paraguay	Palau
				Germany	Peru	San Marino
				Greece	Philippines	Tuvalu
				Grenada

Posted in Social Issues, United Nations; Countries All, Russia; Tagged UNGA, Human Rights, Suspension, Double Standards; Posted 12 months ago by Pascal-Denis Lussier

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