Russia announced at its extraordinary General Assembly meeting that the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANRI) was withdrawing from the European Network. Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation, wrote about this in an article. telegraph channel.
The Ombudsman called the reasoning for this decision “the ignorance of ENRI Board members’ dependence on the political situation of the “collective West”, anti-Russian hostility and a series of violations.
So, according to Moskalkova, calls by the Russian side to pay attention to the “cruel treatment of protesters in France” and the “deployment of US biological laboratories in Ukraine that could harm all of humanity” went unheard. organization.
The Ombudswoman stressed that under these circumstances, Russia’s participation in the European GANRI network “becomes impossible and therefore meaningless”.
On April 11, 2023, ENRI members voted to remove the Russian National Institute of Human Rights from the alliance’s European network. reported on the organization’s website. This is because Russia has failed to fulfill its obligations under ENRI membership.
Valery Fadeev, former chairman of the Human Rights Council declarationthat international human rights institutions “do not work”.