{"id":47023,"date":"2022-04-07T15:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T22:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47023"},"modified":"2022-04-07T15:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T22:04:36","slug":"russias-suspension-from-the-un-human-rights-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47023","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Suspension from the UN Human Rights Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>04\/07\/2022 05:40 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>By suspending Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, countries around the world chose to hold Moscow to account today\u00a0for\u00a0gross and systematic violations of human rights\u00a0in\u00a0its\u00a0premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified\u00a0war of choice against Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0We have seen growing evidence of Russia\u2019s brutal disregard for\u00a0international law and\u00a0human rights\u00a0in\u00a0Ukraine, most notably in the death and devastation it has caused in\u00a0communities such as\u00a0Bucha,\u00a0Irpin, and Mariupol.\u00a0\u00a0The atrocities the world has witnessed appear to be further evidence of war crimes, which serves as another indication that\u00a0Russia has no place in a body whose primary purpose is to\u00a0promote respect for human rights.\u00a0\u00a0As I said earlier today, today a wrong has been righted.<\/p>\n<p>The world is sending another clear signal that Russia must immediately and unconditionally cease its\u00a0war of aggression against Ukraine and honor the principles enshrined in the UN Charter.\u00a0 The international community will continue to hold Russia to account, and the United States will continue to stand with the people of Ukraine as they fight for their sovereignty, democracy,\u00a0and freedom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04\/07\/2022 05:40 PM EDT Antony J.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47024,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47023\/revisions\/47024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}