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US expected to withdraw from UN Human Rights Council: report
2018-06-16
[THEHILL] The U.S. is reportedly planning to pull out of the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
Human Rights Council after festivities over key issues such as Israel.

A source told Rooters that the move could be "imminent." The council will begin a three-week session in Geneva on Monday.

Other diplomatic sources told Rooters that the withdrawal was "not a question of if but of when."

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
has clashed with the council over its treatment of Israel and has repeatedly voted against U.N. measures that were critical of that country. Most recently, the U.S. and Australia were the only two members to vote against a proposal to investigate Israel’s alleged use of excessive force in Gazoo.
Haley has criticized the council over what she called a "chronic anti-Israel bias" and threatened last year to leave.

"When the council passes more than 70 resolutions against Israel, a country with a strong human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
record, and just seven resolutions against Iran, a country with an abysmal human rights record, you know something is seriously wrong," she wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post last June.

The U.S. rejoined the council under former President Obama after boycotting for three years under former President George W. Bush.

Haley has also called for other reforms to the body, including making it easier to expel member states with poor human rights records, specifically Venezuela, China and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
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Posted by:Fred

#6  Keep going.

Get out of the UN and toss those corrupt fucks out.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-06-16 12:59  

#5  We don't qualify for the human Rights Council anyway - not being a human rights abuser like the majority on the Human Rights [Abusers[ Council.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-06-16 12:16  

#4  And withdraw funding!
Posted by: Alistaire Untervehr8459   2018-06-16 10:07  

#3  I'd withdraw as half the so-called "rights" are entitlements.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-06-16 05:36  

#2  It's a start...

Hopefully pulling out means pulling out the $ we waste on it.
Posted by: Omererong Bucket7760   2018-06-16 05:36  

#1  It's about time. This joke of a council needs its credibility withdrawn, pronto.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2018-06-16 03:05  

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