{"id":30245,"date":"2016-10-24T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/30245-drop-russia-from-un-rights-council-ngos.html"},"modified":"2016-10-24T16:10:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:10:02","slug":"drop-russia-from-un-rights-council-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/30245-drop-russia-from-un-rights-council-ngos.html","title":{"rendered":"Drop Russia from UN rights council: NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n             More than 80 human rights and aid organizations on Monday urged UN member states to drop Russia from the Human Rights Council over its military campaign in Syria.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Human Rights Watch, CARE International and Refugees International were among the signatories of the appeal launched ahead of elections to fill 14 seats at the 47-nation council on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Russia, Hungary and Croatia will be running for two seats representing the Eastern European group at the council, which is tasked with addressing rights violations worldwide.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The organizations urged UN member states to \"question seriously whether Russia's role in Syria -- which includes supporting and undertaking military actions which have routinely targeted civilians and civilian objects -- renders it fit to serve on the UN's premier inter-governmental human rights institution.\"\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Russia has been supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's war against opposition rebels and jihadists from the Islamic State group since September 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            On Friday, the UN General Assembly will cast ballots to elect the members for a three-year term beginning in 2017.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Other than Russia, China and Saudi Arabia are almost guaranteed to win seats as their regional grouping is putting forward a clean slate of four countries for four seats. The other two are Iraq and Japan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Brazil, Cuba and Guatemala will be battling for two seats representing Latin America.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Africa is also presenting a clean slate, with Egypt, Rwanda, South Africa and Tunisia set to win seats.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The United States and Britain are seeking election to the two seats representing the Western Europe and others group.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Created in 2006, the rights council monitors violations and in particular set up a ground-breaking commission of inquiry on North Korea that led to calls for war crimes prosecutions of the Pyongyang regime.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The council last week asked the commission of inquiry for Syria to carry out a special investigation of rights abuses in Aleppo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 80 human rights and aid organizations on Monday urged UN member states to drop Russia from the Human Rights Council over its military campaign in Syria. 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