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Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

U.S. withdrawing from U.N. Human Rights Council

Author:     NAHAL TOOSI
Source:     Politico
Publication Date:     06/19/2018 06:11 PM EDT
 Link: U.S. withdrawing from U.N. Human Rights Council
Stephan:   Trump sees withdrawing from the U.N. Human Rights Council, as a way to support the rightwing Israeli government. This is important to the christofascists, and conservative Jews, although for different reasons. But to the rest of the world this is a further act of self-castration. The timing could not be worse. It further diminishes the stature of the United States throughout the world, and will change the way Americans are assessed and treated in other countries. Our involvement in the world is shrinking.

“For too long the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias,“ said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
Credit: Mary Altaffer/AP

The United States will withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council, an entity it has long accused of being biased against Israel and giving cover to rights-abusing governments, the Trump administration announced on Tuesday.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, announced the decision, a move that essentially reverts the U.S. to the stance it took during the George W. Bush administration, which declined to join the council. Haley and Pompeo‘s announcement came a day after the U.N.’s human rights chief, in a speech to the council, criticized President Donald Trump’s immigration policy decisions that have led his administration to separate families apprehended after entering the U.S. illegally.

“For too long the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias,“ Haley said.

It wasn‘t immediately clear […]

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1 Comment

  1. will on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 12:13 pm

    Nikki Haley is the perfect trump employee. Arrogant, smarmy with no qualifications for this high profile position. If trump survives his term I’m willing to bet we exit the UN. This could be a choice piece of real estate to redevelop, might make a nice hotel.