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US set to announce departure from UN Human Rights Council: reports
Deutsche Welle ^ | 06.19.2018 | es/aw (AFP, AP, Reuters)

Posted on 06/19/2018 11:37:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley will tell the organization on Tuesday evening at a joint press conference in Washington that their nation plans to leave its main human rights body, UN officials have confirmed.

The announcement would come just one day after the UNHRC condemned the Trump administration for its policy of separating children from the families at the US-Mexico border.

Haley had already threatened the exit, citing concerns that the council is biased against Israel. She said that the UNHRC was a “forum for politics, hypocrisy and evasion,” that included major human rights violators such as Venezuela, Cuba, China, Burundi and Saudi Arabia. […]

Human Rights Watch slammed the move, with executive director Kenneth Roth bemoaning the vacuum the lack of US leadership will leave: “The Trump administration’s withdrawal is a sad reflection of its one-dimensional human rights policy: defending Israeli abuses from criticism takes precedence above all else.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antichristian; antisemitism; antizionism; hrw; humanrightscouncil; humanrightswatch; oneworldgovernment; rop; socialism; soros; un; unhrc
Well, now we get to see the head of Soros’ HRW spew neo-Nazi rhetoric openly.
1 posted on 06/19/2018 11:37:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Does that include money ?


2 posted on 06/19/2018 11:39:20 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Olog-hai

US out of UN
UN out of US


3 posted on 06/19/2018 11:39:34 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Olog-hai

GOOD..now get out of the UN, otherwise known as the Jew hating council, altogether


4 posted on 06/19/2018 11:41:53 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: butlerweave
Hopefully. But as our erstwhile uber lib left wing "NOH8" extremists will say: "Trump to start abusing US citizens." 👹
5 posted on 06/19/2018 11:42:46 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Olog-hai
The announcement would come just one day after the UNHRC condemned the Trump administration for its policy of separating children from the families at the US-Mexico border.

Whose policy?

6 posted on 06/19/2018 11:43:23 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: Olog-hai

This is lonnnnnng overdue. MAGA!


7 posted on 06/19/2018 11:44:30 AM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterto)
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To: Olog-hai

Human Rights Council.

One of the most mis-named bodies ever formed.


8 posted on 06/19/2018 11:47:18 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Olog-hai

Has it actually happened yet? It’s now about Noon, Pacific Time.


9 posted on 06/19/2018 11:48:07 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Olog-hai

Won’t be satisfied until the U.S. departs form the UN...and then kicks them off our soil.


10 posted on 06/19/2018 11:58:37 AM PDT by Angels27
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To: lee martell

“will tell the organization on Tuesday evening at a joint press conference”

Patience...


11 posted on 06/19/2018 12:03:24 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Olog-hai
Human Rights Watch slammed the move, with executive director Kenneth Roth bemoaning the vacuum the lack of US leadership will leave...

And what good has U.S. leadership done?

12 posted on 06/19/2018 12:05:01 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Olog-hai

More Libtard heads explode. Winning.


13 posted on 06/19/2018 12:06:38 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: onedoug

Dittos!!!!


14 posted on 06/19/2018 12:07:06 PM PDT by Postman (The Flies, having defined BHO and HRC, are quickly moving on to Nancy (Brain Maggots) P.)
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To: Angels27

The UN has always been rotten. We need it like we need cancer. Away with it!


15 posted on 06/19/2018 12:09:10 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide
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To: onedoug

UN out of the US is an idea I like but since we have a veto on the security console it would be foolish to get completely out of the UN.


16 posted on 06/19/2018 12:10:12 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: pepsi_junkie
Whose policy?

Not just that; but, many of these children were sent,by their own parents, alone on this trip. Sent with human smugglers, drug smugglers and gang members. The U.S. Detention Centers are probably the safest places they have been in months.

17 posted on 06/19/2018 12:10:40 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: jpsb

Why? Why do we need to belong to the Security Council anymore than any other part of the sovereignty-sapping UN? The UN is no good...period.


18 posted on 06/19/2018 12:32:55 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide
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To: jpsb

Stay in the UN, just kick them the hell out to Switzerland

UN should be happy, there will be less travel time for all those ME & African dictators

win-win!


19 posted on 06/19/2018 1:25:23 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: jpsb

Then the UN needs to be destroyed. Cutting this abomination loose to cause us trouble as an independent entity would mean another expensive enemy to deal with.


20 posted on 06/19/2018 2:19:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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