Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, speaks during a news conference in Washington, D.C., June 18, 2019.
On Monday (Feb. 8), Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the return of the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) as an observer. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said he will introduce legislation Thursday to bar the Biden administration from funding the UNHRC.
In addition to Roy, the bill was originally co-sponsored by three other Republican federal representatives: Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin, Jeff Duncan of South Carolina and Brian Babin of Texas.
Roe told The Daily Caller, a conservative website, that the UNHRC is a morally bankrupt organization that supports some of the world’s most authoritarian regimes while systematically attacking America’s ally Israel. By rejoining the UNHRC, the Biden Administration is granting the organization legitimacy to protect the world’s worst human rights abusers from accountability.
The Trump administration withdrew from the U.N. Human Rights Council in June 2018 and stopped funding it. Roe said former President Trump got it very right, and it is unfortunate that the Biden administration has now chosen to reverse this diplomatic achievement of the Trump Administration.
“I will do everything I can to fight this unconscionable decision, because not even a dime of taxpayer money should be funneled to this corrupt organization.” Roe continued.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley warned Biden late last month that rejoining the U.N. Human Rights Council would prevent the U.S. from fulfilling its commitment to uphold human rights.
“The U.N. Human Rights Council is a cesspool of political bias and a mockery of human rights. If Biden rejoins this organization, a council that includes dictatorships and the world’s worst human rights abusers, it will run counter to our struggle for human rights.” Healy tweeted.
When the Trump administration directed the U.S. to withdraw from the Human Rights Council in 2018, then-UN Ambassador Healy similarly slammed the organization.
“Sadly, it’s now clear that our calls for reform have not been heeded.” Hiley said in June 2018 that human rights abusers continue to serve on the council, which has long been an umbrella for human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias.
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