Exhumation of the victims of Russian soldiers from a mass grave in the town of Buča in a photo from April 10, 2022.
Geneva – Human rights gains made in recent decades are now being curtailed or even completely reversed. At the beginning of the meeting of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said this today, citing the “senseless” Russian invasion of Ukraine as an example. According to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the aggression provoked by Moscow unleashed even the biggest human rights violations we know today.
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“Much of the progress that has been achieved in several decades is limited and even reversed in some parts,” Türk said at the meeting in Geneva, attended by more than 100 ministers and heads of state. He called on countries to try to overcome their differences and create a “new global consensus on human rights”.
The UN Human Rights Council will discuss the crises in different parts of the world led by Russia's war against Ukraine at today's meeting. Russia is not a member of the UN Human Rights Council. Following reports of the killing of civilians in Ukraine last April, the UN General Assembly approved the suspension of Russia's membership in the Council, and Moscow subsequently left the 47-member body. The seat of Russia was won by the Czech Republic on May 10.
