European human rights organization suspends Russia

[Wicked Blue]

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Source: Associated Press

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Council of Europe has suspended Russia from the continent’s human rights organization because of its invasion of Ukraine.

The 47-nation council announced Friday that Russia was suspended with “immediate effect” from the organization’s Committee of Ministers and parliamentary assembly on Friday “as a result of the Russian Federation’s armed attack on Ukraine.”

The Strasbourg-based organization, which was founded in 1949, said Russia remained a member and continued to be bound by relevant human rights conventions.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-business-china-asia-b57700241d650315db1eb0e8516ce2d6

[SheltieLover]

1. Now boot them out of UN!

[nycbos]

3. Look who is on the UN human rights council

Libya, Sudan, China, Pakistan, Qatar, and Russia.


https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/MembersByGroup.aspx


Sudan is perpetrating a genocide in Darfur, China is perpetrating a genocide against the Uyghurs. And I think Russell Libya and Pakistan speak for themselves. There is a reason why a lot of people don't take the UN seriously.

[nycbos]

2. I studied abroad in Strasburg.

Even then I thought the council Europe was a joke because I thought how can any organization no claims to be about "human rights" have Russia as a member.

[gab13by13]

4. Russia isn't evil enough

to get kicked out of sporting events though.

[Wicked Blue]

5. Russia loses Champions League final to Paris; Sochi F1 axed

LONDON (AP) — The invasion of Ukraine drew punitive measures across the sporting world on Friday when Russia was stripped of the Champions League final, with UEFA replacing St. Petersburg with Paris as host, and Formula One dropping this season’s Russian Grand Prix in Sochi.

The International Olympic Committee also urged sports federations to move their events out of Russia or Belarus, which Moscow is using as a staging ground for its troops moving into Ukraine from the north.

A backlash against the embrace of Russian state-owned companies as sponsors in sports saw Manchester United drop Aeroflot’s commercial deal, with the Premier League club citing “events in Ukraine” after the airline was banned in Britain as part of sanctions against President Vladimir Putin’s regime.

Although UEFA still has Gazprom as a Champions League sponsor, the final will no longer be staged at the St. Petersburg stadium named after the Russian state-owned energy firm. The climax to the European men’s football season will still be held on May 28 but now at the 80,000-seat Stade de France in the Saint-Denis suburb of the French capital after the decision by UEFA’s executive committee.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-soccer-sports-champions-league-paris-249b9dd81765c7cc4dd7a3fc4eb2547b

[Omaha Steve]

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