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The Taliban recently dissolved Afghanistan’s Human Rights Commission along with four other departments established by the country’s former, U.S.-backed government, Khaama Press News Agency reported on Tuesday citing an original report by Reuters.

The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), a non-governmental organization, testified before the United Nations on Thursday that the island’s communist regime had executed over 30,000 arbitrary arrests in the past five years.

The socialist regime of Venezuela, one of the world’s worst human rights abusers, currently holds a seat in the United Nations Human Rights Council, which it will keep until at least 2022.

The United Nations Human Rights Council welcomed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to deliver remarks at its annual regular session on Monday, despite the fact that U.N. human rights experts have accused Maduro of committing crimes against humanity.

More than 80 organizations penned an open letter criticizing the United Nations for electing Cuba to the body’s Human Rights Council on Tuesday in an uncontested race, citing the appalling human rights record of the country’s communist regime.

Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan, an Islamist who has called for a global law banning blasphemy, celebrated his nation’s re-election to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday by vowing to use the agency to fight “Islamophobia.”

The Communist Party of China won a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council Tuesday, a development widely decried as a global outrage given Beijing’s ongoing ethnic cleansing campaigns; widespread torture, disappearing, and killing of dissidents; and attempts to expand its repression beyond its borders.

President Donald Trump delivered a sharp rebuke to globalism, while touting the virtues of America First, during his highly-anticipated address before the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley joined Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department on Tuesday to announce the United States’ withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council.

It would be better if free nations ceased to legitimize the Human Rights Council with their participation. In fact, they should withdraw without delay and and say why.

Place a temporary hold on U.S. funding for the United Nations except in the case of urgent humanitarian relief. Set up a committee to review all U.S. UN contributions.

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley and the Trump administration are being pinned down in the trenches of the United Nations, outmaneuvered not only by smooth U.N. operators, but by Obama-era engineers.

The Trump administration slammed the U.N. Human Rights Council Monday after the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, and Afghanistan were among the countries with abysmal human rights records elected to the body in charge of promoting such rights across the globe.

The United Nations’ Human Rights Council – a body U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley has repeatedly criticized for its anti-Israel bias and questionable membership – is sending a controversial “privacy expert” to the U.S. to analyze and critique privacy rights and anti-terror laws under President Trump.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley made a sharp speech at the U.N.’s Human Rights Council on Tuesday, calling on the body to fix its “chronic” anti-Israel bias and calling on Venezuela to step down from the Council if it will not end its human rights abuses.

The United States is the top contributor to a United Nations office headed by a Jordanian Prince who has repeatedly lambasted President Trump and other populists as “clever cheats” and compared them to the Islamic State (ISIS).

Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has penned a blistering op-ed targeting the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council. She uses her toughest language yet and slams the body as a “haven for dictators” ahead of a visit to its headquarters in Switzerland next week.

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley announced Tuesday that she will travel to Israel after first addressing the notoriously anti-Israel Human Rights Council in Geneva – a body which the U.S. boycotted in March.

TEL AVIV – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last week reiterated his recognition of historic Jewish ties to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and vowed to counter anit-Israel bias at the international body.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has called on the United Nations to establish special “administrative zones” in the Middle East, so Christian asylum seekers can return to the region in safety.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will in the coming months exert pressure on the international community to take actions against Israel, a senior adviser to Abbas said on Tuesday.

It seems clear enough that the Trump administration is not pleased with the conduct of the U.N. Human Rights Council. According to the ever-popular roster of unnamed current and former U.S. officials, the administration is considering a complete withdrawal from the HRC, reports Politico.

The Fifth Committee of the United Nations is set to decide next week whether to allocate funds to ensure that a motion by the body’s Human Rights Council to create a “blacklist” of companies operating in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights can be implemented.

The UN must rid itself of anti-Israel bias and engage honestly with Israelis, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee members Michael Oren (Kulanu) and Omer Bar-Lev (Zionist Union) wrote in a letter to visiting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Tuesday.

Following the Obama administration’s craven presentation of America’s–largely imaginary–human rights shortcomings to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) Monday, the member states took their turns to add to the criticism. In many cases, the countries piling on were dictatorships that murder and persecute their own citizens with absolute impunity.