{"id":9907,"date":"2018-06-20T07:48:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T07:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9907"},"modified":"2018-06-20T07:48:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T07:48:03","slug":"for-the-sake-of-israel-us-packs-up-and-leaves-unhrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9907","title":{"rendered":"For the sake of Israel, US packs up and leaves UNHRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<div id=\"navpages\">\nBy\u00a0<strong>Reuters\/NAN<\/strong><br \/>\nThe U.S. on Tuesday withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday accusing it of a \u201cchronic bias against Israel.\u201d\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"primaryTopWrapper\">\n<div id=\"innerLeft\">\n<div class=\"post\">\nU.S. envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, who announced her country\u2019s decision in Washington, slammed Russia, China, Cuba and Egypt for thwarting U.S. efforts to reform the council.<br \/>\nShe also criticized countries which shared U.S. values and encouraged Washington to remain but \u201cwere unwilling to seriously challenge the status quo.\u201d<br \/>\nThe U.S. is half-way through a three-year term on the main U.N. rights body and the Trump administration had long threatened to quit if the 47-member Geneva-based body was not overhauled.<br \/>\n\u201cLook at the council membership, and you see an appalling disrespect for the most basic rights,\u201d said Haley, citing Venezuela, China, Cuba and Democratic Republic of Congo.<br \/>\nHaley also said the \u201cdisproportionate focus and unending hostility toward Israel is clear proof that the council was motivated by political bias, not by human rights.\u201d<br \/>\nWashington\u2019s withdrawal is the latest U.S. rejection of multilateral engagement after it pulled out of the Paris climate agreement and the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Reuters\/NAN The U.S. on Tuesday withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday accusing it of a \u201cchronic bias against Israel.\u201d U.S. envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, who announced her country\u2019s decision in Washington, slammed Russia, China, Cuba and Egypt for thwarting U.S. efforts to reform the council. She also criticized countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}