The Trump administration issued another attack on the United Nations, with John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s hawkish national security adviser, announcing it plans to cut off funding to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, with other U.N. agencies being potential future targets.
According to one observer, the plan to starve the “Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights suggests U.S. hostility to U.N. human rights protection is not really, or only, about flaws with the Council as it has previously claimed.”
The U.S. announced in June its decision to leave the 47-member Human Rights Council over its alleged anti-Israel bias, which prompted Amnesty International to say that Trump was again “showing his complete disregard for the fundamental rights and freedoms the U.S. claims to uphold.”
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