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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @10:31PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @10:31PM (#695840)

    I thought "WOMP! WOMP!" was the sound of Corey Ledendowski in Federal *******in the*** Prison? You going there, too, jmorris? You see, this is how we got Trump. It is a massive Left wing conspiracy, mostly aimed at taking out the DINOs, the ones who since the Clinton co-option have taken over the Democrats. So first, we fool the Republicans into electing someone even more crazy and incompetent than the neo-cons, then, we staff him with perverts, Moochers, Kellyannes and The Stevens. Sit back and wait for this administration to turn into a racist dumpter fire, causing the destruction of the conservative movement in the US, the demise of the Republican party, and the social isolation of jmorris on gab.

    Plan is going excellently! Now, let's talk about soybean prices, and how smart Trump is with tariffs! We are going to keep pushing conservatives to do something stupid. It is almost too easy.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @03:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @03:01AM (#695970)

    Oh how I want to believe that this is true.

    You mean WJC, not HRC, right?

  • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:12AM

    by deimtee (3272) on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:12AM (#696134) Journal

    I thought womp were a type of rat I could bullseye in my T-16 back home.

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    If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.