“Despite the severity of the situation we continue to see a complete disregard for the people in Yemen,” says co-author of UN’s investigative report. (CD) — Evidence presented as part of a wide-ranging investigation sponsored by the United Nations and released Tuesday shows that the military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates waging a war […]
“The gross human rights violations and abuses committed in Kachin, Rakhine, and Shan states,” the report charges, “undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law.” (CD) — Following a United Nations Human Rights Council fact-finding mission in Myanmar, a damning U.N. report published Monday concludes that the nation’s military leaders, including its top commander, should be further investigated […]
(MEE) — The chair of a UN Human Rights Council investigation into Israel’s use of force against protesters in Gaza has stepped down less than a month after being appointed. Former Pentagon official David Crane resigned from the inquiry for “personal reasons”, according to a statement by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights […]
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The soul of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights is being destroyed with the disappearance of human-rights justice in the world. Everyone should be concerned if not frightened.
The United States has decided to no longer participate in the United Nations 47-member Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The number one reason cited by U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley was that the council is unfairly critically focused on Israel.
(MEE Opinion) — President Donald Trump has pulled the US out of the United Nations Human Rights Council. I challenge him to pull the country out of the UN entirely. Trump’s decision to leave the UN rights council was announced by US ambassador Nikki Haley and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Haley gave two reasons for the decision: […]
(MEMO Op-ed) — The UN Human Rights Council’s allegedly “unconscionable” approach to Israel is the reason cited by the Trump administration for withdrawing unceremoniously from the international body. Using the excuse that the UNHRC is biased against Israel, the United States has, without blinking — and in typical, cowardly fashion — exited stage right in the hope […]
Russia’s TASS News Agency reported that the Russian President and the United Nations Secretary General discussed the American withdrawal from the the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov gave an overview in a meeting with reporters:
(ANTIWAR.COM) — In an official letter sent to a large number of international human rights groups, US Ambassador Nikki Haley angrily attacked those organizations and said that their refusal to back US interests was a “contributing factor” in the US withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council. This centers on an attempt in late 2017 to push for “reforms” […]
Pompeo on UNHRC: “Once noble vision turned into exercise of shameless hypocrisy”
Pompeo singled out these three countries as having abhorrent human rights records: China, Cuba and Venezuela.
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