By Emily Young, University of Michigan
If change in international legal bodies is something we’ve asked for this week, the United Nations has responded promptly as Russia’s standing invitation to the Human Rights Council, a table of forty-seven, has been rescinded. It’s the first time a permanent Security Council member has been removed from the Human Rights Council, and you don’t need to be a student in International Studies to see why. Although their removal has been widely attributed to the aerial bombings of Aleppo and their affairs in Syria’s civil war, Russia’s involvement in the heightened number of refugees …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
