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  U.S. Plans to Withdraw From UN Human Rights Council Today
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Last EditedRP  Jun 19, 2018 04:13pm
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AuthorNick Wadhams
News DateTuesday, June 19, 2018 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe 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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