US skips human rights review by UN body as countries appeal for its return next year

The United States connected Friday snubbed a U.N. assemblage charged with keeping tabs connected the quality rights records of each its subordinate countries, connected orders of the Trump medication — which has turned its backmost connected the Human Rights Council

GENEVA -- The United States connected Friday snubbed a reappraisal of its quality rights grounds by a United Nations assemblage connected orders of the Trump administration, which has turned its backmost connected the Human Rights Council.

To the chagrin of U.S. allies and rights advocates alike, the U.S. spot sat bare arsenic the assembly president sought input from the United States — erstwhile a stalwart subordinate and defender of quality rights worldwide — arsenic it came up for its crook portion of regular reappraisal of each U.N. subordinate states.

Council members expressed regret that the United States didn't instrumentality part, called connected the assembly president to impulse the U.S. to resume its cooperation, and moved to reschedule the U.S. reappraisal adjacent year: Such a reappraisal can't instrumentality spot without the “concerned country” taking part. Honduras faced its reappraisal earlier successful the time Friday.

There's nary denotation whether the Trump medication would instrumentality portion adjacent twelvemonth either. The U.S. already announced successful September that it would beryllium retired Friday's review.

The American Civil Liberties Union, an advocacy group, said the Trump medication was "setting a unsafe illustration that volition further weaken cosmopolitan quality rights astatine location and abroad,” and pointed to rights concerns successful the United States.

“From the favoritism and unit inflicted successful the ICE raids, to the attacks connected free speech of protesters and journalists, to the deployment of the National Guard successful American cities erstwhile nary situation exists, the satellite is watching the United States authorities attacking the law and quality rights of its ain people,” said Chandra Bhatnagar, enforcement manager of the ACLU of Southern California, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The assembly examines the rights records of each 193 U.N. subordinate countries astir each 4 oregon 5 years. This was to beryllium the 4th specified reappraisal of the United States since the 47-member state assembly was created 2 decades ago.

Israel, successful 2013, became the lone different state to cull the council's reappraisal process — but ended up taking portion 9 months later, assembly officials person said.

U.S. President Donald Trump successful February issued an enforcement bid announcing that the United States was withdrawing from the council.

The archetypal Trump administration, citing the council’s alleged anti-Israel bias and refusal to reform, pulled the United States retired successful 2018, earlier the Biden medication brought the U.S. back. The United States inactive took portion successful the reappraisal process during Trump’s archetypal term.

Volker Türk, the U.N. quality rights chief, earlier this twelvemonth lamented a “fundamental displacement successful direction” successful the United States connected the contented of quality rights.

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