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The United States of America has announced its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Nikki Haley, the United States UN Ambassador, and Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, announced the decision in a joint press statement on Tuesday. In her statement, Haley said that the US withdrawal from the Human Rights Council is “not a retreat from human rights commitments”. Further calling the council “hypocritical” and “self-serving” due its “chronic bias against Israel”. “The council ceases to…
