USA withdraws from the UN Human Rights Council

June 14th, 2008 • Human Rights, Political, UN, USA

The US has ‘disengaged’ from the UN Human Rights Council. The UN HRC is a pet favourite target for showing up the UN (and often rightly so!), but I don’t think disengagement is the answer. The HRC provides a crucial monitoring tool for human rights, as well as contributing to an on-going international human rights law jurisprudence.

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