Last month, the rapporteur issued her first report, warning the rights situation in Russia has ‘significantly deteriorated’ since Putin launched his war against Ukraine
The UN’s top human rights body agreed Thursday to renew the work of an independent expert who has reported on deteriorating human rights conditions in Russia after PresidentThe Human Rights Council voted 18 to 7, with 22 abstentions, to extend for a year the mandate of the independent UN special rapporteur on the rights situation in Russia.
The vote, marked by a high number of abstentions, comes after the UN General Assembly rejected Russia’s bid to rejoin the council on Tuesday. Russia’s membership was suspended last year after the Russian military invasion of Ukraine. Last month, the rapporteur, Mariana Katzarova, issued her first report, warning the rights situation in Russia has “significantly deteriorated” sinceA separate probe by UN-backed investigators looking into rights abuses in connection with the war in Ukraine has accused Russia of war crimes.
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