A new petition to the White House urges President Barack Obama to immediately take all necessary steps to suspend Russia from its seat on the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC).
The petition launched Monday evening on Change.org urges Obama to live up to his promise to sanction Russia following its military incursion into the Ukraine’s Crimea region by suspending Moscow from the HRC, which oversees global human rights abuses.
“True international isolation requires the immediate removal of Russia from the United Nation’s top human rights body, the U.N. Human Rights Council,” states the petition, which was created by Human Rights Voices, an advocacy group that exposes global human rights violations.
It pushes for the United States to file a resolution at the U.N. General Assembly “calling for the suspension of Russia as a Council member” as a result of its “aggression against Ukraine and egregious human rights abuses.”
Additionally, Obama should take “all necessary steps immediately to suspend Russia from membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council.”
Credit to Washington Free Beacon
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