Retreating from the Human Rights Council is not the Answer

By Donald K. Anton
Director, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University
Professor of International Law, Griffith Law School
The United States (US) announced on the 20th of June 2018 that it was withdrawing from its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). It added another sad day for those resisting transparent attempts around the world to undermine the more liberal, tolerant, and enlightened world that our wiser forbearers created after the untold horror, death, and sorrow left by the scourge of two world wars.
The move by the US came a day after the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, condemned the Trump Administration’s abhorrent short-lived policy of separating parents crossing the southern US border from their children as a deterrent to migration. The High Commissioner declared that the Trump Administration’s policy of “seek[ing] to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable.” He called on the

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