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U.S. Withdraws From United Nations Human Rights Council

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

takyon writes:

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: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Wednesday June 20 2018, @09:28PM (4 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @09:28PM (#695804)

    nah, the Statue itself is fine. Lovely gift from the French people. The stupid poem some (((usual suspects))) stuck on the pedestal is another story. The inversion of the meaning of the Statue of Liberty from Liberty shining a beacon of liberty to a benighted unfree world into some sick "dump your shit on us world, we love being shit on!" nonsense needs to go.

    Import the Third World, become the Third World. Assimilation, when possible, is a slow process. Time to close the door for a few generations and attempt to assimilate what we now have and/or encourage the ones who can't/won't assimilate to go home.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @10:33PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @10:33PM (#695841)

    Import the Third World, become the Third World.

    You do realize that it was all those immigrants from Third World "shit hole" countries who made America great, right? Right?!?

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @10:58PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @10:58PM (#695849)

      Who made America... what?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @12:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @12:13AM (#695888)

    As if one of Yahweh's followers could ever comprehend what Ishtar [yahushua.net] stands for!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @03:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @03:55PM (#696231)

    man somebody's off their meds today