6/20/2018

HUMAN RIGHTS/NIKKI HALEY/TRUMP PEOPLE/UN: “US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, accusing the body of bias against US ally Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers accountable. The move, which the Trump administration has threatened for months, came down one day after the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed the separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border as ‘unconscionable.’ Speaking from the State Department, where she was joined by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Haley defended the move to withdraw from the council, saying US calls for reform were not heeded…Based in Geneva, the Human Rights Council is a body of 47 member states within the United Nations tasked with upholding human rights. Membership on the council gives countries like the United States a voice in important debates over human rights atrocities, but the council’s critics, including Haley, say abusers use their membership to guarantee their own impunity.”

-Laura Koran, “US leaving UN Human Rights Council — ‘a cesspool of political bias’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 20, 2018 7:02 am