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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 Thursday June 21 2018, @12:04AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @12:04AM (#695884)

    Thomas Sowell?!

    The man is an economist for christ's sake! And he's a typical Reagan/Thatcher neo-liberal! You think he's a hero for playing along to get along? There's another name for that!

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 21 2018, @03:16AM (5 children)

    Yes, there is, it's "society". Bucking the system that everyone but you agrees upon is the very definition of anti-social.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:03AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:03AM (#696035)

      Whow...now are you actually saying that jm and all the followers of Der Führer Trump, who are actually bucking the system that most people in this country and the world agree on are anti-social?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @03:33PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @03:33PM (#696223)

      A society led and supported by racist fascists has no right to exist.

      • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:19PM (2 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:19PM (#696253) Journal

        Agreed. So, what do you propose? That we shoot everyone who identifies as, and associates with Antifa?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:18PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:18PM (#696298)

          It is stupid commentary such as yours that makes it hard to have real discussions. Conservative types want to ignore that problems with racism we have in the US, they want to ignore the systemic problems created by racist policies, and they don't want to be held responsible in any way for anything.

          Big giant babies who wouldn't know personal responsibility if it smacked them upside the head.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @08:50PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @08:50PM (#696388)

          Trump and our corrupt congress are Antifa?! Not much of a disguise...