The United Nations Human Rights Council is either proof that humorless diplomatic apparatchiks do indeed have a sense of humor or that something is seriously broken with the U.N. mechanism.
The UNHRC essentially serves one major function: wholesale grousing about the state of Israel. That probably shouldn’t surprise you when you see some of the defenders of human rights that are currently or have previously sat on the Council. The group currently features wholesale human rights violators like China, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela
and Cuba, and
Viktor Orban’s Hungary isn’t far off that gold standard.
Libya sat on the body during the reign of Gadhafi, as has Evo Morales’ Bolivia. There are innumerable other nations on the rostrum that have a questionable dedication to democracy in human rights. In short, if you were trying to assemble a body of nations that would be an affront to human rights, you could do far worse than the motley crew the U.N. has assembled to protect them.
For the next few years, the United States was expected to be one of the two states selected to the committee from “Western European and Other Nations.” If U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has her way, however, that arrangement isn’t going to last very long.
According to a report from
Reuters, the United States is expected to withdraw from the UNHRC, citing the body’s refusal to undertake serious reforms to how it works. While it’s unclear when the withdrawal would take place, given that the Council is session is set to convene in Geneva this Monday, one source said it would be “imminent.”
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