{"id":1425498,"date":"2022-04-08T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425498"},"modified":"2022-04-08T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:00:53","slug":"pressure-mounts-for-u-n-to-expel-china-cuba-from-human-rights-council-after-russia-ouster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pressure-mounts-for-u-n-to-expel-china-cuba-from-human-rights-council-after-russia-ouster\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure Mounts for U.N. to Expel China, Cuba from Human Rights Council After Russia Ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpressure-mounts-for-u-n-to-expel-china-cuba-from-human-rights-council-after-russia-ouster%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425498&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Human rights activists are demanding the United Nations expel China, Cuba, Venezuela, and several other members of its Human Rights Council following the suspension of Russia\u2019s membership on Thursday in light of their abysmal human rights records \u2013 in China\u2019s case, including genocide.<\/p>\n<p>The General Assembly, the U.N.\u2019s largest body, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/04\/07\/un-general-assembly-suspends-russia-from-human-rights-council-china-still-a-member\/\">voted<\/a> to expel Russia from the Human Rights Council on Thursday in response to its ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine, also currently a Council member.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The vote came to the General Assembly floor specifically in response to what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/04\/satellite-photos-show-mass-grave-in-ukraine-russia-denies-involvement\/\">evidence<\/a> suggests are widespread war crimes in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where Ukrainian forces, following the removal of Russian troops, found evidence of torture chambers, mass graves, and dead civilians apparently tied up before being executed.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian government has branded the circumstances in Bucha a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1433671\">false flag<\/a>\u201d operation. While Moscow has not denied that war crimes occurred there, Russian officials have insisted that Ukrainian forces committed them to embarrass Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The General Assembly voted to remove Russia from the Council 93 to 24. The vote was the second of its kind in history after Libya under Muammar Qaddafi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/un-vote-suspending-russia-human-rights-council-over-ukraine-2022-04-07\/\">lost<\/a> its seat on the Council in 2011.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20582300\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1390107710.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The results of the votes to expel Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council of members of the United Nations General Assembly is seen on a screen during a continuation of the Eleventh Emergency Special Session on the invasion of Ukraine on April 07, 2022 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Post-Qaddafi Libya currently has a seat on the Human Rights Council, despite being home to an extensively documented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20210620-women-migrants-reduced-to-sex-slaves-in-libya-hell\">slave trade<\/a>\u00a0and regularly experiencing outrageous violence against civilians as the internationally recognized government battles for control of the country against Russia-backed warlord <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libyaobserver.ly\/news\/us-federal-court-resumes-haftars-trial\">Khalifa Haftar<\/a>. The Ukrainian government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/russia-ukraine-war-libya-khalifa-haftar-reported-send-fighters-aid-russia\">claimed<\/a> \u2013 though with little evidence \u2013 last month that Haftar was sending battle-hardened Libyan fighters to help the Russians seize territory in their country.<\/p>\n<p>Libya joins China, Cuba, Venezuela, Mauritania, Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia, Qatar, Benin, Cameroon, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, India, Malaysia, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, and Kazakhstan as nations on the Human Rights Council with human rights records that range from questionable to atrocious.<\/p>\n<p>In remarks on Wednesday, following the call by the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. to remove Russia from the body, the head of the NGO U.N. Watch noted that, to truly legitimize the Council, every human rights violator should be ousted. U.N. Watch is an organization that monitors the United Nations\u2019 activities, particularly mismanagement, abuses committed by U.N. members and officials, and the manipulation of the body by dictatorships.<\/p>\n<p>The head of U.N. Watch, Hillel Neuer, noted America\u2019s call to remove Russia in a speech at the\u00a0Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on Wednesday, urging the removal of all dictatorships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what we\u2019ve been saying all along, when we tried to stop Russia, China, and Cuba from getting elected two years ago, but we couldn\u2019t get any governments to say this,\u201d Neuer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubacenter.org\/archives\/2022\/4\/7\/cubabrief-russia-ousted-from-un-human-rights-council-making-the-case-for-cuba-and-others-to-be-expelled-two-cuban-artists-face-long-prison-terms\">noted<\/a>. \u201cAnd from day 1 of the invasion in February, we called on Russia to be expelled from the Council. \u2026 But this should be a larger turning point. After Russia is removed, we urge the same to be done to other dictatorships.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Retweet if you&#8217;re thrilled that \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa Russia was just expelled from the U.N. Human Rights Council and you demand <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAmbUN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USAmbUN<\/a> to now work to expel these members next:<br \/>\ud83c\uddfb Venezuela<br \/>\ud83c\uddf5\u1f1f Pakistan<br \/>\ud83c\uddf3 China<br \/>\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddfe Libya<br \/>\ud83c\uddfa Cuba<br \/>\ud83c\uddf6 Qatar<br \/>\ud83c\uddf8 Sudan<br \/>\ud83c\uddf4 Bolivia<br \/>Gabon<br \/>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddff Uzbekistan<br \/>\u1f1f\ud83c\uddff Kazakhstan<br \/>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DyrorNauPe\">https:\/\/t.co\/DyrorNauPe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/1512131069134389250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Center for a Free Cuba, a human rights organization, similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/america\/america-latina\/2022\/04\/08\/piden-que-cuba-y-venezuela-tambien-salgan-del-consejo-de-derechos-humanos\/\">issued<\/a> a statement calling for the removal of \u201cChina, Cuba, Eritrea, Libya, Mauritania, and Venezuela\u201d from the Council. Cuba and Venezuela, close allies of Russia and China, have faced decades of accusations of using police repression to silence and disappear political dissidents, among other crimes. Eritrea, also a Russian and Chinese ally, is facing accusations of aiding the government of neighboring Ethiopia in its current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2022\/04\/01\/w-h-o-s-tedros-says-ethiopia-still-starving-tigray-minority-after-truce-declared\/\">civil war<\/a> against the Tigray ethnic minority there, which some have described as a genocide \u2013 though international consensus on the matter does not yet exist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is the time to clean up the dysfunctional Human Rights Council so that it can fulfill its duties in this critical movement,\u201d John Su\u00e1rez, the executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba, said following the vote on Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">China, the largest country on the Human Rights Council, is also arguably the most egregious violator of human rights in the world. The Chinese Communist Party is currently engaging in genocide against multiple majority-Muslim ethnic groups in occupied East Turkistan, which it calls Xinjiang \u2013 most prominently the Uyghur people who are indigenous to that region.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20582354\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1390100520.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20582354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1390100520-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, speaks as members of the United Nations General Assembly meet for a continuation of the Eleventh Emergency Special Session on the invasion of Ukraine on April 07, 2022 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">China has forced as many as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/05\/06\/feds-china-muslim-crackdown-number-detainees-may-have-tripled-less-than-1-year\/\">3 million<\/a> people into concentration camps, forcibly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/06\/08\/eyewitnesses-china-sterilizing-entire-uyghur-villages\/\">sterilized<\/a> entire villages to ensure the population of ethnic minorities does not grow, and forced people to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/15\/exclusive-concentration-camp-survivor-china-killed-baby-unknown-surgery\/\">suffer<\/a>\u00a0indoctrination, beatings, sleep deprivation, gang rape, slavery, and medical testing suggestive of organ harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government voted against removing Russia from the Council and angrily condemned those countries who pushed for the suspension of its membership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina firmly opposes the politicization and instrumentalization of the human rights issue, rejects selective and confrontational approaches as well as double standards on human rights issue, and opposes pressuring other countries in the name of human rights,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2511_665403\/202204\/t20220408_10665857.html\">told<\/a> reporters on Friday when asked about Russia\u2019s removal from the Council. \u201cSuch a move will only aggravate the division among member states and intensify the contradictions between the parties concerned. It is like adding fuel to the fire, which is not conducive to the de-escalation of conflicts, and even less so to advancing the peace talks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zhao claimed expelling Russia would \u201cset a new and dangerous precedent,\u201d presumably of holding human rights violators accountable for their actions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1649240693212000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2G1_7aOrrFB8JlYvlf1xV8\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1649240693212000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3KS-3uKdKCZwSOvHwnFV6G\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights activists are demanding the United Nations expel China, Cuba, Venezuela, and several other members of its Human Rights Council following the suspension of Russia\u2019s membership on Thursday in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}