A former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Monday called on President Joe Biden not to rejoin the United Nations Human Rights Council, accusing the body of making a “mockery of human rights.” Nikki Haley, who served in the position during the Trump administration, said the council “is a cesspool of political bias that makes a mockery of human rights.” “If Biden rejoins the council whose membership includes dictatorial regimes & some of the world’s worst human rights violators, it will fly in the face of our fight for human rights,” she wrote in a tweet. The United States in 2018 withdrew from the council, noting that repeat human rights offenders such as China and Cuba sit on it. “For too long, the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers, and a cesspool of political bias,” Haley said at the time. Former President Donald Trump …
Nikki Haley Calls for Biden Not to Rejoin UN’s Human Rights Council
January 26, 2021
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