June 15, 2021 | The National Interest
Suspend Syria and Russia from the WHO
Earlier this year, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, another member of the UN family, made history by voting to strip the Bashar al-Assad regime of its voting rights and other privileges.
June 15, 2021 | The National Interest
Suspend Syria and Russia from the WHO
Earlier this year, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, another member of the UN family, made history by voting to strip the Bashar al-Assad regime of its voting rights and other privileges.
An artillery barrage tore into Al-Shifa hospital in northwest Syria on Saturday morning. The attack killed two healthcare providers, and the hospital is temporarily out of service. Yet this war crime is different from hundreds of others perpetrated by the Damascus regime and its sponsors in Moscow and Tehran, because it was just two weeks ago that the members of the World Health Organization elected Syria to a three-year term on the agency’s Executive Board, granting a leadership role in global health policy to a regime that has shown unmatched contempt for the WHO’s commitment to health care “as a fundamental right for every human being.” Russia won a seat on the Executive Board last year, despite detailed evidence that its pilots have made regular bombing runs against Syrian hospitals.