[ April 24, 2024 ]
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Nikki Haley Slams Human Rights Council as ‘Greatest Failure’ of the UN
‘A Cesspool of Political Bias’: Nikki Haley on Leaving UN Human Rights Council
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She spoke about her country’s withdrawal from the council after it failed to sway the 47-member body to undergo serious reform measures to prevent human rights abusers from hijacking its agenda.
Nikki Haley: UNHRC’s Agenda 7 is ‘directed against Israel’s existence’
“It is a blazing red siren signaling the Human Rights Council’s political corruption and moral bankruptcy,” said Haley.
By Tovah Lazaroff, J Post, July 19, 2018The United Nations Human Rights Council’s controversial Agenda Item 7 is designed to undermine Israel’s existence, United States Ambassador Nikki Haley told The Heritage Foundation in Washington on Wednesday.She spoke about her country’s withdrawal from the council after it failed to sway the 47-member body to undergo serious reform measures to prevent human rights abusers from hijacking its agenda.
Haley said that the UNHRC’s continued biased treatment of Israel is symptomatic of the group’s overall problem and pledged that the US would continue to work from the outside to reform the human rights body.
Prior to leaving the council, the US had unsuccessfully tried to eliminate Agenda Item 7, which mandates that the UNHRC must debate alleged Israeli human rights abuses at each season.
“This is the permanent part of the Human Rights Council agenda that is devoted exclusively to Israel,” Haley told the Heritage Foundation
“No other country – not Iran, not Syria, not North Korea – has an agenda item devoted solely to it. Agenda Item 7 is not directed at anything Israel does. It is directed at the very existence of Israel. It is a blazing red siren signaling the Human Rights Council’s political corruption and moral bankruptcy,” she said.
Prior to leaving the council, the US met with more than 125 member states about reform measures, Haley said. “In the end, the United States couldn’t convince enough countries to stand up and declare that the Human Rights Council was no longer worthy of its name,” she said.
The “most obvious reason is that authoritarian regimes are happy with the status quo.” They seek council seats to protect their human rights efforts and those of their allies from scrutiny, she said.
Countries such as Russia, China, Cuba and Egypt “benefit from making a mockery of the Human Rights Council. So it’s no surprise that they openly resisted our efforts to reform it,” Haley said.
The US ambassador to the UN said that what was surprising was the pro-human rights countries and non-governmental groups that also refused to work with the US to reform the UNHRC, even as they acknowledged its flaws.
Those NGOs “came out publicly against our reforms telling other countries to vote against us. Groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch sided with Russia and China on a critical human rights issue,” Haley said.
They were afraid that countries who are known human rights abusers would push for retaliatory “hostile amendments” in the UN General Assembly, she said.
She charged that these NGOs also feared losing “institutional comforts” at the UN.
“They have big staffs and lots of relationships with the UN bureaucracy. Change is threatening to them,” Haley said.
Pro-human rights countries told the US privately that they too were “disgusted with countries like Cuba and Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and the Congo serving on the Council, as well as the constant attacks on Israel.”
“But after months of agreeing with us on all of the flaws of the Human Rights Council, they would not take a stand unless it was behind closed doors, and out of public view,” Haley said.
The US remains committed to fighting on behalf of human rights both globally and inside the UN, Haley said. “We just won’t do it inside a Council that consistently fails the cause of human rights.”
“Our withdrawal from the Human Rights Council does not mean that we give up our fight for reform. On the contrary, any country willing to work with us to reshape the Council need only ask,” she said. “Fixing the institutional flaws of the Human Rights Council was, is, and will remain one of the biggest priorities at the UN.”
She was particularly moved, she said, by the mothers and children she met in refugees camps in Ethiopia, Congo, Turkey and Jordan.
“As long as we have a voice, we must use it to advocate for these mothers and children. I will use my voice. Not just because I am a mother. Not just because I am an ambassador. But because I am an American. And America can no more abandon the cause of human rights than abandon itself,” Haley said.
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21 Comments
5 years ago
Go, girl.
5 years ago
Pretty soon America’s Red Army will match against Nikki and her family. No one is safe from the fascist left.
5 years ago
She is Absolutely correct. Every organisation has been taken over by left/Lib/pro-jihadi scumbags.
Sharia Police in Uk are not willing to protect those who speak truth about islam https://tinyurl.com/ya6j3phj
Instead go after those who expose the jihadi crimes and oppose their Left/Liberal supporters !
5 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
Also around 80+ Sharia Courts in the UK.
Even the liberal Gaurdian Newspaper wrote that they have no place in a woman’s life!
5 years ago
Reply to
TD
Thank you, TD.
I am appalled that any sharia courts are permitted!
Which court’s rulings take precedence in case of a conflict?
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
UNHRC is a FAKE Human rights council.
I’m all for Human rights councils – as long as they’re not fake.
5 years ago
This woman says things the way they ought to be said. The U.N. is, without a doubt, an organization that has become essentially useless as it involves the concept of fairness and equal handling of all relevant matters, especially because it is overwhelmed by the presence of Islamic nations that continue their anti-Semitism to permeate within this once thought of benevolent organization, that was created to promote peace and harmony between nations. Because this organization has fallen into this pit of inequity, I am proud that our nation is now standing up to the prejudice that exists there. Though I believe we must remain in that organization, so that we can be heard and our American concepts can be presented, I truly believe that our contributions to this bias organization aught to be significantly reduced.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
She is [adding her resume… Notice how quick she was to he ashamed of southern history and the confederate flag. and big on amnesty.
PLEASE don’t forget who she REALLY IS. They depend on you to forget!
Trump moved her to the UN and put a PRO TRUMP governor in her place.
5 years ago
UN is filled with TURD world nations. One should NOT be surprised they hate Israel. That is WHY they are TURD world nations.
You can read it in the Bible yourself about it. They don’t believe it, though they are EXAMPLES of it. Very strange…..
5 years ago
UNRWA was created to deal with the enormous refugee problem created by Nazi Germany, After the collapse of Nazi Germany, Western European countries were faced with the enormous task of repatriating the multiple thousands of people ‘relocated’ by the Nazis, including German refugees who had been settled in the Occupied Eastern countries and fled the Russian onslaught. The Human Rights legislation was then adopted. That legislation is now being applied quite wrongly to the thousand of economic migrants who are refugees by their own choice. Nobody has forced them to leave their countries and they are in the majority young able bodied men who should be remaining in their countries to develop them.
Instead due to Merkel et al and their refugees welcome ‘policies’ they are coming to the rich advanced countries in the hope of reaping the benefits they have never worked for!
5 years ago
Reply to
leonore35
UNRWA is a front for Hamas.
UNRWA: The United Nations Radicalization Workforce Aid
5 years ago
Nikki is a very strong and outspoken woman! And I do love her accent! 🙂
5 years ago
Muslims and Muslim symPATHETIC countries have taken over the U.N..
Thank God Trump got us out of their Muslim “refugee” program.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Has he really? He says he wants to, but I’m not sure he actually has.
5 years ago
It’s not just the council but the UN as a whole. However well meaning it once was it has degenerated into an antisemitic grifting scam.
5 years ago
If only there were many more NIKKI HALEY’s.
Our world would soon be paradise.
5 years ago
Long live Israel!
Israel is the only democracy in the middle east today surrounded by 56 Islamic oppressive backwards Muslim countries.
G-d Bless Israel and the IDF!
Shabbat Shalom
5 years ago
Made up of UN members and supported by the membership of the UN . Another reason to boot the UN and help it to relocate to Somalia .
Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights………. Carry !
5 years ago
Haley= CFR…Council On Foreign Relations…need i say more…
Same as CFR lap dog John Bolton …….
5 years ago
Almost all NGOs are swampy!
