UN Human Rights Council postpones review of the US rights record after the Trump administration's snub

Summary

The United States is to become the first country to skip a regular review of its human rights record at the U.N.'s Human Rights Council, ABC News and The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Tuesday 10 November. A State Department spokesperson said the 'irredeemable body makes a mockery of human rights', according to CBS News, which headlined that the U.S. is becoming the first nation to refuse the review. Later that day the Human Rights Council delayed the review of the U.S. human rights record until January, the LA Times and the Inquirer reported, headlining that the U.N. body agreed to postpone it after the Trump administration's snub.

Latest: The United States is to become the first country to skip a regular review of its human rights record at the U.N.'s Human Rights Council, ABC News and The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, a State Department spokesperson saying the 'irredeemable body makes a mockery of human rights', according to CBS News, and the council delayed the review of the U.S. human rights record until January, the LA Times and the Inquirer reported.

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