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."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @10:00PM (3 children)
It took a super-state[*] to overcome them and declare their laws unjust. Who is going to overcome the USA to judge its laws?
[*] A coalition of several countries.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @10:49PM (2 children)
Teach your kids mandarin.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:01PM (1 child)
Hahahaha good luck getting justice out of the Chinese Communist Party.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:45PM
I don't think you'd get justice from the CCP, but maybe you'd get survival.
That's also worth something, for the time being. CCP is not a death cult (yet?).
Once the Nazis had finished off all the undesirables, they'd be forced to invent new undesirables, or risk instability.