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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: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:03AM (2 children)

    by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:03AM (#695936)

    Hey, that's an insult to homophiliacs.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:31AM (1 child)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:31AM (#696022) Journal

    Not to mentions the Homophonophiliacs, of whom we have far too many here on SolylentNews. Let me say, exampla gratia, "loose" or let me refer to the current "precedent". And a bit of pedantry in the defense of language, against the forces of idiotic uneducated and only marginally functionally literate white stupidity. Gawd, anyone who calls themselves "white" is by definition stupid. Stupid white people. Stupid for thinking they are white, when they are not. And more for thinking they are. There is no such thing as "white", it is only a back-formation by slavers to mean "not-slaves". So I think it is time to enslave the whites, give them iPhones, and turn them over to their corporate masters. Stupid white people.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by melikamp on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:27PM

      by melikamp (1886) on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:27PM (#696192) Journal

      So I think it is time to enslave the whites, give them iPhones, and turn them over to their corporate masters.

      That's like saying, it's time to sip some tea, to drink tea, and get on with the tea drinking.