DISINFO: The UNHRC and the Council of Europe are biased
SUMMARY
Unfortunately, throughout the history of the conflicts in Donbas and Novorossiya, international institutions designed to guarantee and promote human rights, such as the UNHRC, the Council of Europe and others, have demonstrated their bias and inability to solve the problems they faced. Due to the “obvious bias” of these organizations, Russia was forced to renounce its membership in them.
RESPONSE
This pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative aims to provide a convenient “explanation” to what is a clear rebuke by international bodies of Russia’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine.
By claiming that “international organisations are biased”, this disinformation story tries to distract attention from the fact that Russia’s illicit actions have been strongly rejected by the UN and other global institutions, including votes at the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly condemning the invasion of Ukraine on 02 March 2022 and the annexation of four regions of Ukraine on 12 October 2022, or the multiple OHCHR reports denouncing Russian war crimes.
Accusing international institutions of having an anti-Russian bias is a frequent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative. See other examples in our database, such as claims that International organisations like the UN are servile US tools, that the West employed hybrid warfare against Russia in the UN General Assembly, that any international tribunal should be for Ukrainian Nazis, not for Russia, that OSCE is a criminal organisation that is in favour of war in Donbas, that European Court of Human Rights turns into a political tool against Russia, that The West uses the OSCE to control the Eastern space, that World Anti-Doping Agency’s accusations are Russophobic provocations, or that OPCW has become a tool in the hands of hostile countries.