UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia faces a tough fight to regain a seat in the U.N.’s premiere human rights body in Tuesday’s election in the General Assembly, which voted last year to suspend Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine.
The 193-member assembly will be electing 15 members to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, with candidates put forward by the U.N.’s five regional groups.
Human Rights Watch said last week that Russia and China are unfit to serve on the Human Rights Council.
The New York-based watchdog said China’s rights record should also disqualify it from the Human Rights Council.
The Geneva-based Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace a commission discredited because of some members’ poor rights records.
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