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CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:18 PM Jun 2018

U.S. Plans to Withdraw From UN Human Rights Council Today

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-19/trump-is-said-ready-to-pull-u-s-from-un-s-human-rights-council

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.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley plan to announce the withdrawal at the State Department in Washington at 5 p.m., the people said. They asked not to be identified discussing a decision that hadn’t yet been made public.

The 47-member council, based in Geneva and created in 2006, 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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Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
5. t-rump has already began the total suffering of the USA's citizens
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:28 PM
Jun 2018

and will more harm to immigrates and the POC.

Get him out along with the GOPs.

TheBlackAdder

(28,208 posts)
7. Trump can't send the kids off to real child sex camps if the USA is still part of the UNHRC.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:41 PM
Jun 2018

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It looks like all those projections of child sex camps will manifest themselves under Trump's admin.

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TheBlackAdder

(28,208 posts)
11. Well, besides not specifying an actual location, those kids are at a higher risk of molestation now.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 04:44 PM
Jun 2018

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Also, it's not a theory, it's a statement.

The GOP people are quick to call others out for weird things, which they themselves partake.

They call people pedos, yet vote for actual pedos. They don't want human rights, because they take them away.

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