Other Groups from Which the United Nations Has Just Now Decided to Suspend Russia

Alicia Oltuski
The Haven
Published in
2 min readApr 10, 2022

“The U.N. General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council on Thursday, approving a resolution that cited reports of “gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights” in Ukraine.”

-NPR News, April 7

  1. The Committee on the Freedom, Wellbeing, and General Good Health of Journalists, previously the Don’t Imply Suspicious Acts, Persecution, or Perjury Ever Anywhere in Russia (DISAPPEAR) Committee

2. The Crimean Cultural Society

3. The Electoral Veracity Project to Ensure Even Remotely Plausible Polling Results

4. Nothing to See Here (the United Nations’ War Crime Prevention Organization)

5. The Nuclear Safety Process Steering Committee

6. The LGBTQ+ Human Rights Alliance

7. The How About Cybersecurity Caucus (HACC)

8. The Athletic Integrity Team

9. The Commission on Prison Reform

10. The United Nations Peacekeeping Checklist Committee

11. The UN Book Club, lightheartedly called War and Peace and Crime and Punishment for its overrepresentation of Russian Literature (“War Crime” for short)

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