{"id":117703,"date":"2023-10-13T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/un-human-rights-council-prolongs-russia-monitoring\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:30:11","slug":"un-human-rights-council-prolongs-russia-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/un-human-rights-council-prolongs-russia-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Human Rights Council prolongs Russia monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117703\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe UN Human Rights Council on Thursday extended the mandate of its rapporteur on rights violations in Russia by a year, in a second diplomatic defeat for Moscow in three days. The United Nations\u2019 top rights body adopted a resolution brought by several European countries to prolong Bulgarian human rights expert Mariana Katzarova\u2019s work for another year. On Tuesday in New York, countries scotched Russia\u2019s bid to rejoin the 47-member Human Rights Council, having kicked Moscow out in April last year following its invasion of Ukraine. In Geneva on Thursday, the UN\u2019s top rights body inflicted another diplomatic blow on Russia, passing the resolution on the special rapporteur by 18 votes to seven.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina, Britain, France, Germany, Ukraine and the United States were among the countries backing the resolution. China, Cuba, Eritrea, Kazakhstan and Vietnam voted against prolonging Katzarova\u2019s mandate.Some 22 countries abstained, including India, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. In October 2022, the council decided a special rapporteur was needed for Russia, amid concerns over an intensifying domestic crackdown by Moscow during its war in Ukraine. Katzarova is the first UN-backed monitor of the rights situation in any of the five permanent member states on the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution passed Thursday calls on Moscow to establish \u201cconstructive communication and full cooperation\u201d with Katzarova and allow her unhindered access, including to meet freely with civil society and individuals in detention. Moscow has refused to let her in and not recognised her mandate. \u201cNo country is above scrutiny, no matter how upsetting or embarrassing they find it; no matter how strong their military is\u2026 and no matter how aggressively they threaten or cajole other countries,\u201d US ambassador Michele Taylor told the council before Thursday\u2019s vote.<\/p>\n<p>Luxembourg\u2019s ambassador Marc Bichler, presenting the resolution, said: \u201cJust like all human beings everywhere, the inhabitants of Russia deserve to live freely and enjoy all of their human rights\u2026 regrettably, the authorities have decided otherwise.\u201d The resolution said it was gravely concerned at the \u201ccontinued significant deterioration of the situation\u201d of human rights in Russia, citing reports of \u201cthe extrajudicial killing of government critics and severe restrictions\u201d on freedom of opinion. It also voiced alarm at reported mass arbitrary arrests, \u201cthe lack of an independent judiciary, the denial of the right to a fair trial\u2026 the blocking and forced closure of nearly all independent media outlets\u201d and \u201ccyber-surveillance to control information and intimidate and silence critics\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the findings of her first report last month, Katzarova said repression in Russia had soared since Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, reaching levels not seen since Stalinist times. \u201cThe level of repression against the civil society independent media, and generally anybody with a dissenting voice\u2026 is unprecedented in recent history,\u201d she told reporters. She lamented Moscow\u2019s \u201cenormous crackdown\u201d on critics since invading Ukraine. \u201cCivic society in Russia has been closed by the authorities,\u201d she said, adding that the \u201crepression is very sophisticated\u201d, with new laws presented virtually every week \u201cto stifle\u201d any form of criticism or dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Before Thursday\u2019s vote, British ambassador Simon Manley said the special rapporteur was a \u201cvital link between the international community and the oppressed people of Russia\u201d. China\u2019s representative said the council was becoming \u201cincreasingly politicised and confrontational\u201d. Cuban ambassador Juan Antonio Quintanilla Roman said such resolutions were \u201conly intended to point the finger at certain states for geopolitical purposes\u201d. Russia declined the opportunity to take the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/un-human-rights-council-prolongs-russia-monitoring\/article\">DJ<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/un-human-rights-council-prolongs-russia-monitoring\/\">UN Human Rights Council prolongs Russia monitoring<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1960,555,383,3302,588,402],"class_list":["post-117703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-council","tag-csr-news-en","tag-human-rights","tag-monitoring","tag-russia","tag-un"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}