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GENEVA - 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.
"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 Stasch, Germany's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, told the Council. She said in a report that Russia had adopted laws to"muzzle civil society and punish human rights activists and others for their anti-war stance."When the special rapporteur's mandate was created last year, it marked the first time the U.N. Human Rights Council was authorized to examine the record of one of the United Nations' so-called"P5" members, which hold permanent seats on the Security Council.
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