GENEVA: Russia faced strong criticism over its action in Ukraine on Monday (Feb 27) as the top UN rights body and a global disarmament forum met, amid warnings that rights worldwide were backsliding. Days after the United Nations General Assembly in New York voted overwhelmingly to demand Russia withdraw f
GENEVA: Russia faced strong criticism over its action in Ukraine on Monday as the top UN rights body and a global disarmament forum met, amid warnings that rights worldwide were backsliding.
Seventy-five years after the signing of the Declaration of Human Rights, UN rights chief Volker Turk meanwhile decried the re-emergences of"the old destructive wars of aggression from a bygone era with worldwide consequences, as we have witnessed again in Europe with the senseless Russian invasion of Ukraine".
"Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine is a threat not only to Ukraine, but to international peace and security and to the rules-based international order," he said. In her speech to the conference, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock also denounced Russia for"undermining the arms control architecture we all depend on."
"Some governments chip away at it. Others use a wrecking ball," he said, noting that the past century of astounding progress in human rights and development had"gone into reverse".One key resolution will be on extending a high-level investigation into crimes committed in Ukraine since Russia's invasion.
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