Vladimir Putin on the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Russian President during his meeting with the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights:
📍 December 4, 2023
🇺🇳 December 10 marks the 75th anniversary of the adoption by the UN of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Unfortunately, we commemorate this milestone in a challenging situation, as the international system for ensuring and promoting human rights continues to deteriorate. Its institutions, inherently controlled by the West, display political bias, hypocrisy and undisguised selectivity.
❗️ For eight years, we have been witnessing their helplessness and direct disregard for the gross violations against the people of Donbass. These human rights bodies not only failed to recognize, but even encouraged manifestations of Russophobia, supporting the countries that rushed to take the lead in this shameful competition of Russophobes.
🤝 As you know, Russia withdrew from a number of international human rights organizations, but this does not mean that we are abandoning the principles laid down in the Universal Declaration. On the contrary, we are ready to cooperate with all interested parties and partners, to find solutions for forming an effective, fair and equal system for ensuring human rights for everyone.
In other words, a “UN that works”. To me, that would be an organization that either 1) excludes the US and its pack of hyenas, or 2) puts the US and its rabid pack on probation, with no voting rights, especially no veto rights, ever. Since the US has murdered… Read more »
During a seminar held by the China Society for Human Rights Studies on Monday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the society’s president Padma Choling highlighted China’s role as a contributor, advocator and practitioner of the declaration over the years.
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