{"id":13822,"date":"2022-04-08T18:24:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T18:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote"},"modified":"2022-04-08T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T19:00:11","slug":"gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote","title":{"rendered":"Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The Gambia is among 58 members of the UN who abstained in yesterday\u2019s\u2019 vote to suspend Russia from UN human rights commission. The United Nations General Assembly yesterday suspended Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council over reports of \u201cgross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights\u201d in Ukraine, prompting Moscow to announce it was quitting the body.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-led push garnered 93 votes in favor, while 24 countries voted no and 58 countries abstained. A two-thirds majority of voting members in the 193-member General Assembly in New York \u2013 abstentions do not count \u2013 was needed to suspend Russia from the 47-member Geneva-based Human Rights Council. The Gambia, Senegal and most other Africa countries are among the 58 that abstained.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The Gambia is among 58 members of the UN who abstained in yesterday\u2019s\u2019 vote to suspend Russia from UN human rights commission. The United Nations General Assembly yesterday suspended Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council over reports of \u201cgross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights\u201d in Ukraine, prompting Moscow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[2355,2361,260,2995],"class_list":["post-13822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia","tag-suspension"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Gambia is among 58 members of the UN who abstained in yesterday\u2019s\u2019 vote to suspend Russia from UN human rights commi ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Gambia is among 58 members of the UN who abstained in yesterday\u2019s\u2019 vote to suspend Russia from UN human rights commi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-08T18:24:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-08T19:00:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/img-6250861515463.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"763\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"486\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-08T18:24:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-08T19:00:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote\"},\"wordCount\":138,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/img-6250861515463.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\",\"Suspension\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote\",\"name\":\"Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote - Gambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/img-6250861515463.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-08T18:24:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-08T19:00:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Gambia is among 58 members of the UN who abstained in yesterday\u2019s\u2019 vote to suspend Russia from UN human rights commi ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/img-6250861515463.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/img-6250861515463.jpg\",\"width\":763,\"height\":486,\"caption\":\"Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\",\"name\":\"Gambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote - Gambia","description":"The Gambia is among 58 members of the UN who abstained in yesterday\u2019s\u2019 vote to suspend Russia from UN human rights commi ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote","og_description":"The Gambia is among 58 members of the UN who abstained in yesterday\u2019s\u2019 vote to suspend Russia from UN human rights commi ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote","og_site_name":"Gambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-04-08T18:24:44+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-04-08T19:00:11+00:00","og_image":[{"width":763,"height":486,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/img-6250861515463.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote","datePublished":"2022-04-08T18:24:44+00:00","dateModified":"2022-04-08T19:00:11+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote"},"wordCount":138,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/img-6250861515463.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Gambia","Gambia","Suspension"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote","name":"Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote - Gambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/img-6250861515463.jpg","datePublished":"2022-04-08T18:24:44+00:00","dateModified":"2022-04-08T19:00:11+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Gambia is among 58 members of the UN who abstained in yesterday\u2019s\u2019 vote to suspend Russia from UN human rights commi ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/img-6250861515463.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/img-6250861515463.jpg","width":763,"height":486,"caption":"Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-abstains-at-un-russia-suspension-vote#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Gambia abstains at UN Russia suspension vote"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/","name":"Gambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}