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Remarks at the UN Human Rights Council 49th Session (MARCH 1, 2022)

(553자/ 5분 8초)

Glossary

1	Crimea	크림반도
2	Belarus	벨라루스	Belarussian 벨라루스의
3	reprisal	보복

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Currently, the principles at the heart of this Council’s work – and the entire United Nations – are being challenged. As we meet, Russia is carrying out a premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified attack on Ukraine, violating international law, flouting the core principles of international peace and security, and creating a human rights and humanitarian crisis. Reports of Russia’s human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law mount by the hour.

Russian strikes are hitting schools, hospitals, and residential buildings. They are destroying critical infrastructure, which provides millions of people across Ukraine with drinking water, gas to keep them from freezing to death, and electricity. Civilian buses, cars, and even ambulances have been shelled. Russia is doing this every day – across Ukraine.

Russia’s attacks had killed at least a hundred civilians, including children, and wounded hundreds more – and the real figures are much higher. And the casualties keep mounting, including the many civilians killed and wounded in Russia’s monstrous rocket strikes that hit an apartment complex yesterday. Russia’s violence has driven over half a million Ukrainians from the country in just a few days, including children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, who are making harrowing journeys through conflict zones.

If President Putin succeeds in his stated goal of toppling Ukraine’s democratically elected government, the human rights and humanitarian crises will only get worse. Look at Crimea, where Russia’s occupation has come with killings, enforced disappearances, torture, arbitrary detention, and the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities.

The Kremlin is also ramping up its repression within Russia – where, even before the invasion, it was shutting human rights organizations and harassing, poisoning, and imprisoning anti-corruption activists and political opponents.

Authorities reportedly have detained thousands of Russians peacefully protesting the invasions, as well as journalists covering the demonstrations. Russian officials issued a warning to the country’s press that any reporting that refers to the assault as “an attack, an invasion, or a declaration of war” – in other words, that tells the truth – will result in media outlets being blocked and fined. 

These are the human rights abuses this Council was created to stop. If we cannot come together now, when will we come together?

Even as we focus on the crisis in Ukraine, it is far from the only part of the world where the attention is needed. In Belarus, the regime is brutally repressing civil society and the country’s pro-democracy movement, using transnational repression to silence its critics abroad, and enabling Russia’s invasion. In recent days, Belarussian authorities have detained hundreds of people demonstrating peacefully against Russia’s attack.

In China, the government continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang against minority groups, and we urge the Council to release without delay the report on the situation there.

We must redouble our efforts to address the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and press the Taliban to respect the rights of all Afghans, including by stopping the unjust detentions of women protestors and journalists, ending reprisals, and allowing all Afghans to be educated and work in every sector. In each of these places, we must not only denounce abuses, but work to stop them and hold perpetrators accountable. This Council’s decision to hold an urgent debate on the crises is an important step toward ensuring documentation and accountability, and I thank the many members who supported it.