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US leaving UN Human Rights Council – 'a cesspool of political bias'
- legostormtroopr 8y agoAre they wrong? How is it that’s Saudi Arabia, a country with an abysmal human rights record, is granted a seat in the UNHRC?
- ffsc 8y agoSaudi Arabia got a seat because there were four open spots for the Asia region and four countries put forth their candidacy. If any other Asia region country campaigned for a position Saudi Arabia would have lost.
- Paraesthetic 8y agoIts a fantastic decision (especially even from the standpoint of making a stand). The middle east is full of small countries who have engaged in sustained abuses of human rights, and there are a lot of them, all with the same voting power as nations hundreds of times their size.
- jsiepkes 8y ago>and a failure to hold human rights abusers accountable. I guess with the whole child separation debacle the US should currently be glad about that....
- mikejb 8y agoRemember the abduction & torture system they ran for years during the Afghanistan&Iraq war? They indeed better don't complain too much about 'failure to hold human rights abusers accountable'.