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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, @11:09PM (1 child)
¿Qué? [youtube.com] Illegal immigration was an escalating situation, families entering at designated (lawful) port were not arrested or separated. Every president in living memory has increased border security in response to increases in illegal immigration.
The evidence for these claims has yet to materialise.
I'm not a conservative.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @01:38AM
It really is hard to argue with someone smart enough to convince themselves of bullshit. I'm sorry you're stuck in some conservative fantasy. Maybe you have a more specific identifier for your political ideology, but "conservative" is not Republican so you fit in that little box just fine.