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posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 20 2018, @06:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the nothing-will-change dept.

US leaving UN Human Rights Council -- 'a cesspool of political bias'

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. "Human rights abusers continue to serve on, and be elected to, the council," said Haley, listing US grievances with the body. "The world's most inhumane regimes continue to escape its scrutiny, and the council continues politicizing scapegoating of countries with positive human rights records in an attempt to distract from the abusers in its ranks."

Also at NPR and Bloomberg.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 20 2018, @07:38PM (2 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @07:38PM (#695724) Journal

    Ohh....scary liberals "weaponized" one of the great symbols of Liberty in our nation. By pointing out that Republicans are now opposed to it....

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @07:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @07:59PM (#695738)

    You didn't read TFA then? If I stick a plaque with an Adam Smith quote on the Lenin statue in Seattle, would communists then be opposed to communism because they disagree with the text?

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:04PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:04PM (#696292) Journal

    Oh, the Statue of Liberty as a symbol was already turned into a farce after 9/11. You had to go through metal detectors, bomb sniffing dogs, manual pat-down, and other humiliations to even get on the ferry to take you to Liberty Island. Some symbol of freedom that was.

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    Washington DC delenda est.