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U.S. Plans to Withdraw From UN Human Rights Council Today
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Jun 19, 2018 04:13pm |
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Category | General |
Author | Nick Wadhams |
News Date | Tuesday, June 19, 2018 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | The Trump administration plans to announce its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, making good on a pledge to leave a body it has long accused of hypocrisy and criticized as biased against Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The 47-member council, created in 2006 and based in Geneva, began its latest session on Monday with a broadside against President Donald Trump’s immigration policy by the UN’s high commissioner for human rights. He called the policy of separating children from parents crossing the southern border illegally “unconscionable.” |
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