“For the first time, the UN Human Rights Council condemned the severe repression in Venezuela under Maduro. A group of Latin American nations sponsored that effort.” ~ @KenRoth #Rights2019
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“…and by a two-thirds majority of the European Parliament in the case of Hungary, for undermining democracy.” ~
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“Although Poland and Hungary have the power under unanimity rules to shield each other from the actual imposition of such sanctions, the Article 7 process lays the groundwork for using the leverage provided by the EU’s next five-year budget.” ~
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“Poland is the largest recipient of EU funds, and Hungary is among the largest per capita recipients.” ~
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“Both have used these funds for their political advantage, so momentum is building within the EU to stop generously funding their attacks on the EU’s core democratic values.” ~
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“Notably, Germany will have the presidency of the EU at the decisive moment in the second half of 2020.”
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“In Syria, a new bloodbath was averted through multilateral pressure.” ~
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“Three million civilians in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province were at risk of slaughter as the Syrian-Russian military alliance threatened an offensive using their typically indiscriminate bombardment.” ~
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“The Kremlin held the keys to whether this feared massacre of civilians proceeded because the Syrian military was incapable of sustaining an offensive without Russian aerial support.” ~
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“Intensive European pressure on the Russian government ultimately persuaded Putin to agree to a ceasefire in Idlib, beginning in September.” ~
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“So far, that ceasefire has held, despite Trump’s announcement of the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from a separate area in northeast Syria.” ~
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“The aftermath of the Saudi government’s gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi provided another example of multilateral pressure.” ~
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“It is unfortunate that it took the killing of a prominent journalist, rather than of countless unknown Yemeni civilians, to mobilize global outrage at Riyadh, but this single murder turned out to be galvanizing.” ~
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“Gradually, the US and Canada imposed targeted sanctions against many of the Saudis implicated in the murder.” ~
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“In Europe, Germany took the unprecedented step of barring 18 Saudi officials from entering the 26-nation Schengen Zone.” ~
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