Late Thursday morning, the United Nations General Assembly took a vote regarding Russia’s seat on the Human Rights Council. Ahead of the vote, the US lead the move to suspend Russia’s membership on the council.

U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield launched the campaign to suspend Russia from its seat on the 47-member Human Rights Council in the wake of videos and photos of streets in the town of Bucha strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians after Russian soldiers retreated. The deaths have sparked global revulsion and calls for tougher sanctions on Russia, which has vehemently denied its troops were responsible.

In order to approve the suspension, two-thirds of the assembly needed to vote in favor of the resolution.

Shortly before noon, news broke that the measure had passed, 93-24 (with 58 members abstaining).

The @UN General Assembly just voted to remove Russia from the Human Rights Council.

— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) April 7, 2022

Per CNN:

A draft of the resolution says the General Assembly may “suspend the rights of membership in the Human Rights Council of a member of the Council that commits gross and systematic violations of human rights.”

The draft resolution adds that the council has “grave concern” regarding reports of “gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights” and “violations of international humanitarian law” committed by the Russian Federation during its invasion of Ukraine.

The vote follows numerous allegations of atrocities committed by Russian forces and an address, Tuesday, by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to the UN Security Council, in which he questioned the purpose of the Council if they could not see fit to take action against Russia.

What effect this suspension may have on Russia’s actions going forward remains to be seen. We’ll continue to provide updates on the situation as information becomes available.