GENEVA, Switzerland –
“Some governments chip away at it. Others use a wrecking ball,” he told the opening of the UN Human Rights Council’s main annual session, describing the disregard and disdain seen for human rights around the world as “a wake-up call”. The session comes just days after the one-year anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion — which UN rights chief Volker Turk warned show that 75 years after the world agreed on the universality of rights, “the oppression of the past can return in various disguises.”
Moscow will send Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov to address the council in person on Thursday. A long line of resolutions will be voted on during the last few days of the session, which is due to wrap up on April 4.One key resolution will be on extending a high-level investigation into crimes committed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion.