US to skip UN human rights review over ‘anti-American rhetoric’

Arab Weekly ^ | 11/10/2026

[Responsibility2nd]

The United States will spurn a UN meeting on Tuesday where its human rights record under President Donald Trump was due to be examined, drawing criticism from rights groups who say violations have surged to levels not seen in decades.

Washington disengaged from the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council last year, citing an anti-Israel bias, and this is the second year in a row that it has skipped its own review a process that even authoritarian regime take part in.

The US no-show will likely mean the event is postponed until January, according to a draft UN document and diplomats.

A US State Department spokesperson said participation would imply endorsement of the council’s work.

“This irredeemable body makes a mockery of human rights through consistent failures to uphold its own ‘values’ as it pushes anti-American rhetoric,” the spokesperson said, without responding to allegations about the US record.

The 47-member council has not directly criticised Washington’s rights record but its appointed experts have, such as over migrant deportations. Washington said deportations are carried out in accordance with US immigration law.

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) asks all 193 UN member states to submit a rights report every few years and these are reviewed by other states which provide non-binding recommendations.

UN documents show countries had planned on Tuesday to raise issues such as abortion and the death penalty.

US and international non-governmental organisations also sent nearly 200 UN submissions covering topics from migration to racial discrimination.

“We’ve seen attacks on fundamental human rights and civil liberties unprecedented in generations,” Jamil Dakwar of the American Civil Liberties Union told reporters in Geneva. “Enough is enough.”

Fourteen countries are due to take part in the review process in Geneva this month. In Trump’s first term in office, the US submitted its UPR report.

Noor Abdalla, wife of pro-Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was held in immigration detention last year, is among campaigners pressing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk to promptly hold a briefing on the US rights situation, even in Washington’s absence.

“When the most powerful government in the world is not held accountable, they think that they can do whatever they want,” Abdalla told reporters.

However, diplomats were sceptical given that few states want to confront Washington.

“The view is to leave the door open and hope they come back in two years,” said a diplomat.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: unitednations

[Responsibility2nd]

I've been reading headlines that state the US is skipping this Human Rights Council. But this article lays out the reasons why.

Why would the US want to show up to a meeting to face anti American rhetoric?

[Responsibility2nd]

• On Tuesday, the United States became the first country to fully shun a regular review of its human rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
• Citing anti-United States and anti-Israel bias, the Trump administration withdrew from the Council last year, alleging it failed to uphold its own values.
• Participation by the country under review is required by the Geneva-based council; without national representatives, the review cannot proceed, and it typically examines all 193 United Nations member states.
• Jamil Dakwar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, told reporters Monday that the administration is "saying to the world, we don't care about whether you would review us or not."
• Eric Tistounet, a visiting professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, warned the walkout could undermine the review system's credibility, noting that if the predominant global power ignores rights norms, the system faces "big trouble.

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[VAFreedom]

good, it is a joke when you look at the list of members in unhrc, some of who’s who competing for the worst human rights violators.

[Resolute Conservative]

Why can’t we seem to just leave this group. They should move their HQ to Africa or some other backwater hovel where they belong.

[Texas Eagle]

Why is everybody coming here then? Why aren’t people taking rubber rafts to Saudi Arabia and Iran? Or any other Arab country?

[antidemoncrat]

“The United States will spurn a UN meeting on Tuesday where its human rights record under President Donald Trump was due to be examined, drawing criticism from rights groups who say violations have surged to levels not seen in decades.”

Gee, I wonder if the fact Biden’s controllers who let 20 million illegal aliens had anything to do with forcing them to return to the shit hole countries they came from.