A top civil liberties defender is urging the United States to "practice what it preaches" on human rights after U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley addressed the U.N.'s main human rights body.
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley indicated that the decision would be made after the Council's three-week session in Geneva, Switzerland, ends this month.
After a relatively mild council speech, Haley escalated her criticism later Tuesday in remarks at the Graduate Institute of Geneva.
John Fisher, the head of the Human Rights Watch, has said that they expect the US Ambassador will call for reforms.
She said "the presence of multiple human rights-violating countries. has damaged both the reputation of the council and the cause of human rights".
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will also be raised on June 12 by Dubravka Šimonović, a special reporter on violence against women, who visited Israel and the Palestinian territories in September 2016.
Haley said she will also be following up in Israel on her visit to the Human Rights Council.
Prior to Haley's address, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein of Jordan spoke out against Israel, claiming that for 50 years, the Jewish state had occupied land the Palestinians lay claim to for a future state.
Later Tuesday evening, in a separate speech, Haley proposed an amendment to the process by which member nations are chosen to make the council "more effective, more accountable, and more responsive".
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"We will never give up the cause of universal human rights", Haley said.
Haley reiterated USA concerns about what she termed the council's "chronic anti-Israel bias", epitomized by a regular council agenda item known as Item 7.
U.S. concerns about the United Nations rights body predate Trump's election, and Washington has long denounced an agenda item dedicated exclusively to criticising Israel.
But it's no secret some members abuse human rights and use their membership to dodge punishment.
"If it fails to change, then we must pursue advancement of human rights outside the council".
Still, Haley made it clear the US doesn't want to pull out from the group.
Tapper then pressed her, asking, "You're not willing to acknowledge that calling climate change a Chinese hoax is just a big box of insane?" "We seek to reestablish the council's legitimacy".
President Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday the US will not allow the U.N.to "bully" Israel anymore.
Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU's human rights program, criticized Haley's stance in a statement to Reuters. She said "the U.N was such a bully to Israel because they could".
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