The following article by D. Parvaz was posted on the ThinkProgress website June 19, 2018:
The move comes as the world condemns the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents.
The United States announced it is leaving the U.N.’s Human Rights Commission on Tuesday.
The move comes at time when the U.N. Human Rights Commission (a 47-member body with rotating terms) and refugee agency have both condemned the president’s policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexican border before they get the chance to apply for refugee status. On Monday, the U.N. rights chief called the Trump administration of splitting migrant families “unconscionable.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the U.S. departure from the U.N. rights body at the State Department. Continue reading “Trump officially quits the UN Human Rights Council”