The United States is set Tuesday to become the first country to fully shun a regular review of its human rights record at the U.N.'s top rights body since it was created two decades ago.
The Trump administration last year pulled the U.S. out of the Human Rights Council, accusing it of an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel bias, and alleging that it didn’t uphold the very values it promotes.
Supporters back the council’s mandate to keep tabs on human rights in all U.N. member states including the U.S., which has drawn criticism for its policies including strong-arm deportations and targeted killings of alleged drug-runners in the Caribbean and Pacific — which the administration has said are designed to protect U.S. workers and help keep the country safe.
“The first country to fully shun” leads me to think there are some countries out there who minimally participate or only pay lip service to this review. Anyway, fuck Trump. I feel like we here in the US just started down a path to rejoin the rest of the world, but we still have years of work to do.
Given it was originally created to create propaganda in order to justify wars on the West’s enemies, plenty of countries have at least partially shunned the UNHRC’s findings. However over time it has drifted to be a little more honest and a little more multipolar.