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The US has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the US UN envoy Nikki Haley made the announcement at a joint news conference in Washington.

Ms Haley last year accused the council of "chronic anti-Israel bias" and said the US was reviewing its membership.

Formed in 2006, the council has been criticised for allowing countries with questionable human rights records to be members.

UN officials have not yet commented on the US announcement.

The move comes amid intense criticism over the Trump administration's policy of separating child migrants from their parents at the US-Mexico border.

UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad has called the policy "unconscionable".

Meanwhile the campaign group Human Rights Watch criticised President Trump's human rights policy as "one-dimensional".

"The UN Human Rights Council has played an important role in such countries as North Korea, Syria, Myanmar and South Sudan, but all Trump seems to care about is defending Israel," said HRW executive director Kenneth Roth.

In her first address to the council a year ago, Ms Haley said it was "hard to accept" that resolutions had been passed against Israel yet none had been considered for Venezuela, which at the time saw dozens of protesters killed during political turmoil.

"It is essential that this council address its chronic anti-Israel bias if it is to have any credibility," she said.
Israel is the only country that is subject to a permanent standing agenda item, meaning its treatment of the Palestinians is regularly scrutinised.

Leaving the council would would be the latest rejection by the US of multilateral efforts, including the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal.

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What is the UN Human Rights Council?
-Created in 2006 to replace the UN's Human Rights Commission, which was widely discredited for electing member states with questionable track records on human rights
-All of the 47 members are elected for three-year terms
-The council aims to shine a spotlight on rights abuses by adopting resolutions but has faced similar criticism to the commission
-In 2013, human rights groups complained when China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Vietnam were elected to the body
-The US only joined in 2009 under President Barack Obama. It is midway through its current term

https://www.bbc.com/news/44537372
 

Frankfooter

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Thank You President Trump

We LOVE Israel (And Canada)

I know some will respond at the manner in which children are being separated from their parents and that is unfortunate

It is NOT who we are as a country

With that said something has to be done.
Another move that will prove unpopular.
Moving away again from human rights, international law and international cooperation.
 

LT56

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They might as well quit. The US has become a human rights abuser.
 

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Human rights is a scam term its a front for liberal corruption. 90% of human rights groups like amnesty international are scams most of the money goes to big executive salaries, plush vacations etc.
 

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Another move that will prove unpopular.
Moving away again from human rights, international law and international cooperation.
It's called "leading". i.e. opposite of following.

"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems." --Brian Tracy
 

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It's called "leading". i.e. opposite of following.

"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems." --Brian Tracy
No, it’s just leaving. The opposite of leading.
 

danmand

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No, it’s just leaving. The opposite of leading.
It is logical. With it's record, it would be hypocritical of USA to stay in a Human Rights Council
 

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Without Trumpian pretzel-logic, it’s impossible to separate the timing of this decision from the growing international, and domestic opposition to Trump’s family separation policy.

His ‘you’re either with us or against’ us ‘strategy’ of world diplomacy fuels isolationist rhetoric domestically and internationally, and undoubtably will cost his once great great nation greatly. It took the world’s most destructive conflict to put America on-top, in the absence of international cooperation, it’s only a matter of time before a new hegemony rises to the challenge.
 

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It is logical. With it's record, it would be hypocritical of USA to stay in a Human Rights Council
Leave the work to those occupying the moral high ground like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Cuba....
 

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Leave the work to those occupying the moral high ground like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Cuba....
No argument from me there.

But justifying their departure on the basis of everyone else’s biases without acknowledging their own is more than a bit hypocritical.
 

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It is refreshing to see the US challenging the boondoggle that the UN has become.
 

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It is refreshing to see the US challenging the boondoggle that the UN has become.
I am glad you find it refreshing that USA retreats from the civilized world.
 

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It is refreshing to see the US challenging the boondoggle that the UN has become.
Its prevented a world war for how long? If you think that is a boondoggle, you clearly have no idea about the horrors of war
 

oldjones

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It is refreshing to see the US challenging the boondoggle that the UN has become.
Refreshing? They've been whining about not getting their way for decades. Same old same old: Play our way or we don't play at all. There was a time when the USA proudly stood as a human-rights example to the world striving to end segregation and make opportunity equal for all; too busy caging kids and parading with torches against Jews these days, I guess.
 

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I am glad you find it refreshing that USA retreats from the civilized world.
More like retreats from a dysfunctional institution.
 

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Refreshing? They've been whining about not getting their way for decades. Same old same old: Play our way or we don't play at all. There was a time when the USA proudly stood as a human-rights example to the world striving to end segregation and make opportunity equal for all; too busy caging kids and parading with torches against Jews these days, I guess.
I'm pretty sure official public policy of the US is supportive of Jews and Israel. You seem to think that a tiny group of delusional idiots LARPing in the fashion of a defunct German political party of the 1930s is the US government. That's a fairly major misunderstanding on your part. Further, I think it's actually Mexico's policies that result in unattended minors being held in US detention centers.

If "their way" happens to be the right way, why shouldn't they be complaining that the UN is unable to steer straight? The US will continue to lead the world on these issues, but they might have to dig up the weed patch that the UN has become in order to sow a more orderly garden.
 

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Its prevented a world war for how long? If you think that is a boondoggle, you clearly have no idea about the horrors of war
US leadership, while wearing their UN costume, has prevented world war. But it's the actor, not the costume, that makes the difference.
 

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I am glad you find it refreshing that USA retreats from the civilized world.
I see it as more of a pullback from normalizing the uncivilized world.
 

oldjones

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I see your country is still detaining children. So, is it really the US pulling back from normalizing the civilized world?
Nope, they're normalizing the uncivilized world. What the USA is pulling back from is civilization itself.
 
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