US withdraws from UN human rights council, calling it bias against Israel

RT @USUN: With members like China, Cuba, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Venezuela the Human Rights Council is not worth its name. pic.twitter.com/eEETxFvw19

— Nikki Haley (@nikkihaley) June 19, 2018

In a press meet on Tuesday US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said, "US withdrawal from the Human Rights Council," However, she added that the US would not retreat from human rights commitments.

Addressing the press along with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Nikki slammed Russia, China, Cuba and Egypt for opposing the US for demanding necessary reforms in the council.

Sickening irony that Nikki Haley announced U.S. will withdraw from UN Human Rights Council on Juneteenth (which marks of the “end” of slavery June 19, 1865 ), as Trump Administration is tearing asylum-seeking families apart and locking their children in caged detention centers. https://t.co/xbsxraktUu

— Derrick Johnson (@DerrickNAACP) June 19, 2018

Accusing the council of being bias, Nikki said, "Look at the council membership, and you see an appalling disrespect for the most basic rights," She also added that the disproportionate focus and unending hostility toward Israel was a proof of political bias and not by human rights.

The latest rejection of multilateral engagement has come after UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein called on Washington to stop its "unconscionable" policy. Currently, US is facing criticism for detaining children separated from their parents immigrating at the US-Mexico border. 

Maybe someone should have separated Nikki Haley from her parents when they came here from India.

— heemy (@HIMANSHU) June 20, 2018

Twelve rights and aids groups, including Human Rights First, Save the Children and CARE, wrote Pompeo to warn the withdrawal would "make it more difficult to advance human rights priorities and aid victims of abuse around the world."

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