[ April 19, 2024 ]
At last, an American President who stands with our allies. After eight years of betrayal of our allies and treason at the highest level, this is breathtaking. The UN Human Rights Council has been maniacally focused on condemning Israel for years, while ignoring the worst human rights abusers. The Trump administration put it on notice last year, but it did nothing to reform. And so goodbye. At last, an American President.
“‘A Body Unworthy of the Name:’ Haley and Pompeo Confirm US Departure From UN Human Rights Council,'” by Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, June 20, 2018 (thanks to Van):
Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the UN, denounced the global organization’s Human Rights Council (UNHRC) as a “hypocritical body unworthy of its name” as she confirmed on Tuesday that the United States would no longer serve as one of its members.
Story continues below advertisement“This is not a retreat from human rights commitments,” Haley told journalists at the State Department in Washington, DC. The US could not, however, “remain in a hypocritical organization that makes a mockery of human rights,” she said.
Haley had warned that the US was prepared to leave the UNHRC one year ago, declaring on a visit to Israel in June 2017 that “the UN has bullied Israel for a very long time, and we’re not going to let that happen anymore.” A few months later, in October 2017, the US cited anti-Israel bias as a primary reason for its withdrawal from the UN’s cultural and education agency, UNESCO – a decision that is scheduled to take effect in November.
At Tuesday’s press conference, Haley offered her analysis of why US efforts to end the disproportionate focus on Israel had failed alongside its plans for broader reform of the UNHRC. She highlighted the continuing presence on the UNHRC of authoritarian regimes with abysmal human rights records, along with the reluctance of other democracies to make their private misgivings about the council public.
“Unfree countries don’t want the council to be effective – a credible Human Rights Council poses a threat to them and so they oppose it,” Haley said. She cited Russia, China, Cuba and Egypt specifically as countries that “all attempted to undermine our reform efforts this past year.”
Haley also criticized a separate set of countries who shared American concerns about the UNHRC, she said, but were willing to express them only in private. “We gave them opportunity after opportunity, but they would not take a stand unless it was behind closed doors,” she remarked. “No other country has had the courage to join our fight.”
Labeling the UNHRC a “cesspool of political bias,” Haley lambasted the Council for ignoring grievous human rights abuses by its own members, among them Venezuela and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter’s election to the council was approved “even as mass graves were being discovered” on its territory, she said. Haley then pointed to the contrast between the UNHRC’s reluctance to condemn regimes like North Korea, Iran and Syria and the presence of a permanent UNHRC agenda item – Item 7 – that is dedicated to alleged Israeli human rights violations….
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24 Comments
5 years ago
Smart move. The presence of the United States only lent legitimacy to a disgraceful institution.
5 years ago
Reply to
ahem
The only thing you left out is that this move is long overdue. Unless UNHRC changes dramatically- which, given how it is constituted, I think would be next to impossible- the US should stay out this time.
5 years ago
Reply to
ahem
It took Israelis to expose truth about Palestinian fakery and Lies and boy was Trump furious when he realised how he had been conned http://bit.ly/2rOmfyJ
5 years ago
Nice one, expose the UN for the terrorist front that it is.
5 years ago
I don’t understand why the US allows the un to stay in the USA.
5 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
The original intention of the U.N. is long gone.
It’s a corrupt organization pushing a one world government using the U.S. at their ATM machine.
5 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
Trump and Congress should order all UN delegates to leave the USA, and turn the facility into a veterans’ rehabilitation hospital.
5 years ago
Good!
The countries serving on this so called council, are the definition of human rights abuse.
5 years ago
Excellent, the UN and its so-called Human Rights Council are underfoot of the most Human Rights abusers on the planet. The UN is awash with anti-Israel/Semitic sycophants. The alleged Palestinians are and always have been terrorists; murdering Israelis and the never accepting Israels right to exist is inherent. It is time for the USA to wash its hands and rid itself of the UN’s stench. This fetid body is in itself a front for terror and rogue states while Israel is condemned, castigated for protecting her sovereignty and citizens. It is time for America to pull the plug on the UN; it will end up where it deserves, in the sewers of world history.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
It just goes to show you any democratic body dominated by muslums is hardly democratic at all.
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
That’s the way of most of the EU and GB, and others, the stripping of the Rights of non-Islam citizens’ in support of Allah. If we are not vigilant, there will be a mosque on every corner.
5 years ago
Given what nations the Council allows to join, perhaps this move was long in coming.
5 years ago
Poor America, always getting bashed, and held to a different standard than all other countries. Several of the countries on this human rights council are guilty of severe human rights abuses. No one speaks of it, we are not informed of it. US did the right thing. I think it is time the UN moved to another country, it should do so every ten or twenty years. Share the costs. Why must we always pay the lions share? Germany, Switzerland, Dubai, even Sweden would be great locals.
5 years ago
Good riddance
5 years ago
Yeah, funny she doesn’t mention condemning the systematic human rights abuses (i.e. against the unbeliever in islum and frequently women) that are SOP across all muslum states across the entire world.
5 years ago
Good.
Maybe this is the first step towards kicking that sorry a**ed excuse of a disorganization out on its sorry a**.
5 years ago
Great to hear it! Now, just get out of the UN altogether!!
5 years ago
This should have been done decades ago.
5 years ago
Great news and with any luck Trump will eventually get us out of the demonic U.N. and get the U.N. out of the USA!
5 years ago
Should have been done decades ago……
