{"id":144097,"date":"2018-06-21T01:13:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T01:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/us-envoy-nikki-haley-berates-human-rights-groups\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T01:13:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T01:13:55","slug":"us-envoy-nikki-haley-berates-human-rights-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/us-envoy-nikki-haley-berates-human-rights-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"US envoy Nikki Haley berates human rights groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley standing in front of a US flag\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/155A7\/production\/_102136478_047599991.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AFP\/Getty<figcaption>Image caption                                      US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley said rights groups tried to &quot;thwart reform&quot; of the UNHRC                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">US envoy Nikki Haley has attacked rights groups for trying to &quot;thwart reform&quot; of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).<\/p>\n<p>In a letter, Ms Haley said groups worked &quot;opposite the United States&quot; and were partially to blame for the US withdrawal from the body.<\/p>\n<p>The country withdrew from the UNHRC on Tuesday after accusing it of bias.<\/p>\n<p>Her letter was sent to the International Humanist and Ethical Union, which represents 162 groups.<\/p>\n<p>An image of the letter was posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<figure>                              Image Copyright @whitney_hurst               @whitney_hurst                      <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>       <\/figure>\n<figure>                   <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Twitter post by @whitney_hurst: .\u2066@nikkihaley\u2069 sends letter to human rights orgs telling them their efforts to \u201cblock negotiations and thwart reform were a contributing factor\u201d in US decision to withdraw from #UN human rights council \" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/socialembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/whitney_hurst\/status\/1009483177344339969~\/news\/world-us-canada-44557179\"\/>Image Copyright @whitney_hurst                   @whitney_hurst                              <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>           <\/figure>\n<p>Ms Haley berated the groups for not supporting proposed US changes to the UNHRC, saying they &quot;sought to undermine&quot; them and worked &quot;on the side of Russia and China, and opposite the United States&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The letter says they were a contributing factor to the US withdrawal from the council due to their attempts &quot;to block negotiations and thwart reform&quot;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US quits &#039;biased&#039; UN human rights council<\/li>\n<li>Why did the US leave the UN Human Rights Council?<\/li>\n<li>Are we facing a &#039;post human rights world&#039;?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Human Rights Watch UN director Louis Charbonneau said it is &quot;preposterous&quot; to suggest rights groups were undermining reform attempts, and called claims of them backing Russia and China &quot;absurd&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Charbonneau tweeted that the US was &quot;attacking and blaming NGOS for its own failures&quot;.<\/p>\n<figure>                              Image Copyright @loucharbon               @loucharbon                      <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>       <\/figure>\n<figure>                   <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Twitter post by @loucharbon: What I told @carlandry_afp  \u201cBy attacking and blaming NGOs for its own failure, the #Trump administration is taking a page out of the book of some of the worst governments around the world.\u201d \u2014 @nikkihaley slams rights groups after US quits UN council \" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/socialembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/loucharbon\/status\/1009511830388117504~\/news\/world-us-canada-44557179\"\/>Image Copyright @loucharbon                   @loucharbon                              <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>           <\/figure>\n<p>The US pulled out of the UNHRC on Tuesday, calling it a &quot;cesspool of political bias&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the decision to leave the council, Ms Haley described it as a &quot;hypocritical and self-serving organisation&quot; that displayed &quot;unending hostility towards Israel&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>She was speaking alongside US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who denounced the council as &quot;a protector of human rights abusers&quot;.<\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bl8rj.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionHaley: Council has been a protector of human rights abusers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The US pulled out of the UN&#039;s cultural organisation Unesco in 2017, again for perceived bias against Israel.<\/p>\n<h2>Why did the US decide to quit?<\/h2>\n<p>The decision to leave the body follows years of US criticism.<\/p>\n<p>The country initially refused to join the council when it was created in 2006, arguing that the body admitted nations with questionable human rights records. <\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bnczz.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionHRW&#039;s Sarah Margon says other states &quot;have to step up to the plate&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It only joined in 2009 under President Barack Obama, and won re-election to the council in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>But human rights groups voiced fresh complaints about the body in 2013, after China, Russia, Saudia Arabia, Algeria and Vietnam were elected members.<\/p>\n<p>This followed Israel&#039;s unprecedented boycott of one of the council&#039;s reviews, alleging unfair criticism from the body. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, Nikki Haley told the council it was &quot;hard to accept&quot; that resolutions had been passed against Israel yet none had been considered for Venezuela, where dozens of protesters had been killed during political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Israel is the only country that is subject to a permanent standing agenda item, meaning its treatment of the Palestinians is regularly scrutinised by the UNHRC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFP\/GettyImage caption US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley said rights groups tried to &quot;thwart reform&quot; of the UNHRC US envoy Nikki Haley has attacked rights groups for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}