The United Nations General Assembly voted on Thursday to approve a U.S.-led campaign to suspend Russia from the world organization’s leading human rights body over its unprovoked attack on Ukraine.
Suspension from the 47-member Human Rights Council needed a two-thirds majority and was seen as a strong diplomatic rebuke of Russia and its alleged atrocities in Ukraine, specifically in Bucha, where hundreds of civilians were butchered, burned, and killed over the weekend.
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