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Trump causes international outrage after pulling out of UN Human Rights Council
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Republican members of Congress on immigration in the Cabinet Room of the White House
UNITED STATES President Donald Trump has caused international outrage over his decision to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, after the administration branded it a “cesspool of political bias.”
US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the Geneva-based body was “hypocritical” and makes a “mockery of human rights” with an “unending hostility towards Israel.”
UN human rights spokesman Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said he was disappointed but not surprised by the news.
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