
GENEVA (Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights body on Thursday adopted a resolution extending the mandate of an independent expert to document alleged human rights abuses in Russia that activists say have drastically increased since its invasion of Ukraine last year. Eighteen members of the United Nations Human Rights Council voted in favour of the resolution, with 22 abstaining and seven voting against it. "The Special Rapporteur is one of the last avenues for civil society to bring international attention to their important work and to give a voice to those who risk their lives," Katharina St...




