United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley continues to attack the UN’s worst elements. Her latest target: a group that purportedly focuses on human rights. Natalie Johnson of the Washington Free Beacon reports.
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday the United Nations’ Human Rights Council is the “greatest failure” of the international organization given its continued support to dictatorial regimes and entrenched bias against Israel.
“The Human Rights Council has provided cover, not condemnation, for the world’s most inhumane regimes,” Haley said in remarks at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
“It has been a bully pulpit for human rights violators. The Human Rights Council has been not a place of conscious, but a place of politics. It has focused its attention unfairly and relentlessly on Israel. Meanwhile, it has ignored the misery inflicted by regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, and China.”
Haley doubled down on the Trump administration’s decision last month to withdraw the United States from the council amid what she viewed as a “chronic” anti-Israel bias that led to over 68 condemnations of the Jewish state over a 10-year period versus just six for Iran. She also accused the council of allowing notorious human rights abusers as members.
She cited the council’s acceptance of the Democratic Republic of Congo as a member in October even as mass graves were being uncovered there, and its unwillingness to confront habitual human rights abuses in Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela.
She said American participation was the “last shred of credibility” the council had.
