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Why has the US withdrawn from the UN council for human rights – and what is its significance?
The Trump administration’s decision represents part of its drive to consolidate support for a right-wing populist world view, writes JOHN FOSTER
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ON June 19 the United States withdrew from the UN council for human rights. The reasons? US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley described the council as a “cesspool of political bias” and criticised its “unceasing hostility towards Israel.” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the council of “shameless hypocrisy” and of “enabling human rights abuses by absolving wrongdoers by silence.”
The US withdrawal was backed by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who described the council as a “biased, hostile, anti-Israel organisation that has betrayed its mission of protecting human rights.”
The EU, on the other hand, reasserted its “steadfast commitment to the human rights council.”
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