The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday expressed concern about what it known as “grave human rights violations” dedicated by Russian army forces and personal army firms in Ukraine.
Commissioner Mehrdad Payandeh expressed concern about grave human rights violations dedicated throughout the “ongoing armed conflict by the Russian Federation’s military forces and private military companies” towards individuals protected underneath the conference.
“It was also severely disturbed by reports of incitement to racial hatred and propagation of racist stereotypes against ethnic Ukrainians, alleged forced mobilization and conscription, which have disproportionately affected ethnic minorities, including indigenous peoples,” stated Payandeh.
He stated the fee addressed the state of affairs of youngsters, the taking of youngsters from particular territories to Russia, with out addressing the timeframe or the numbers of youngsters in any approach.
The committee urged Russia to right away finish “forced mobilization” and conscription inside its personal nation and on different territories underneath its efficient management, whereas additionally offering compensation, victims‘ rehabilitation, and ensures of non-repetition.
It known as upon Russia to analyze allegations of human rights violations dedicated throughout the ongoing armed battle with Ukraine and different armed conflicts by which it’s or has been concerned.
The committee additionally requested Russia to watch and fight racist hate speech, racial hatred, and discrimination.
Russia was requested to overview the regulation on combating extremist actions and related provisions of the legal code as a way to set up a exact definition of extremist exercise in step with and in accordance with worldwide human rights requirements.
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“And to ensure that the legislative framework on countering extremism is not used to intimidate, arrest or prosecute journalists, human rights defenders, or civil society members, including those working on the rights of ethnic minorities, the Roma, indigenous peoples, and non-citizens,” stated Payandeh.
The UN commissioner stated Russia’s refusal to handle the problems raised didn’t stop them from addressing them of their concluding observations.
“But, of course, it made our work more difficult, and we would have liked to engage in a constructive dialogue,” he stated.
According to the fee, racial discrimination stays a stumbling block to completely realizing human rights.
“In spite of progress in some areas, distinctions, exclusions, restrictions and preferences based on race, color, descent, national or ethnic origin, continue to create and embitter conflict, and cause untold suffering and loss of life,” says the fee.
“Our mandate is not to address human rights issues in general, but only insofar as they amounted to racial discrimination,” Payandeh stated.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
