USA: Joe Biden plans to return to the UN human rights Council

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Emma Teitel
Emma Teitel
Emma Teitel is an award-winning national affairs columnist with the Toronto Star who writes about anything and everything. She got her start at Maclean's Magazine where she wrote frequently about women's issues, LGBT rights, and popular culture.

For nearly three years, the USA was out there – now you are expected to return to the request of the government of U.S. President Joe Biden in the UN human rights Council. According to information from government circles, the government plans to announce this week that the U.S. seek to be involved in the human rights Council. The previous President Donald Trump had announced the withdrawal from the body in the summer of 2018.

His chief diplomat to the UN, Nikki Haley, had designated the Council as a “cesspool of political bias”. Trump had justified the withdrawal of the composition and a disproportionate focus on Israel, which was considered by all countries of the world, by far the most by the human rights Council with critical resolutions.

The human rights Council was created in 2006 and by the government of U.S. President George W. Bush avoided. Even then, it was a criticism of Israel. At the time, John Bolton, US Ambassador to the United Nations – a harsh critic of the organization, and later National security adviser under Donald Trump. Under Barack Obama, the United States would for the first time in the panel, select.

The UN human rights Council in the United States is controversial

Now want to Flash according to the government circles US Secretary of state Antony and a leading Diplomat for the UN re-entry already this Monday to tell. The United States should return the information, initially as an observer in the subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly, aims to return as a member state by-election. As an observer, the country had the right to vote.

The UN General Assembly elects the 47 members of the human rights Council for three years. Currently including Cuba, China, Russia, and Venezuela to countries where human rights activists denounce always violations. In the course of the year, new members are to be elected into it.

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