Human Rights Council is UN's biggest failure, says US envoy


US Ambassador Nikki Haley says the United Nations Human Rights Council is not a place of conscience, but a place of politics. – EPA pic, July 19, 2018.

US Ambassador Nikki Haley yesterday described the Human Rights Council as the “greatest failure” of the United Nations, as she defended her country’s decision to quit the global body.

She told the Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington that the Geneva-based body “provided cover, not condemnation, for the world’s most inhumane regimes”.


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