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Why Did the US Disengage from UN Human Rights Council?

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Kenneth Roth and Hurst Hannum discuss the United State's disengagement from the UN Human Rights Council.

They cite the Council's inclusion of human rights abusers and its focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as potential motives.
Roth: China's Future Depends on Free Speech, Liberty

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Kenneth Roth discusses the current state of human rights in China.

He argues that while the US may not be willing to challenge China due to economic interests, the future of Chinese stability rests on liberty issues like free speech.
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RoyalWe

Posted: 05.16.09, 01:07 AM

Is the question "why did the U.S. disengage from the Human Rights Council" meant to be serious? I think it might have been about the same time that the Human Rights Council itself disengaged from sanity, started adopting resolutions that insulted half the world and, in some bizarre parody of itself, pushed states like Libya into leadership roles. This isn't a difficult question to figure out.