China, Russia, and other human rights abusers are lecturing the United States on human rights. President-elect Joe Biden wants more of that, and he’ll be sure to fund it on the taxpayer dime.
The U.S. left the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2018, after appropriately noting that the UNHRC cares more about protecting human rights abusers than criticizing them. Still, as a member of the U.N., the U.S. was required to go in front of the UNHRC and listen as the world’s worst human rights abusers parroted left-wing talking points on the horrors of the U.S.
China looked past its concentration camps to join the gulag state of North Korea and criticize “systemic racism” and racial discrimination in the U.S. Russia went full Jim Acosta, crowing about how the U.S. must “guarantee freedom of expression in the media.” And then there was Iran, mourning that an American airstrike killed their chief terrorist Qassem Soleimani.
That China and Russia are part of its human rights body shows exactly how big of a joke the U.N. is. And Biden wants to keep that joke going — along with promising to rejoin the Chinese propagandists of the World Health Organization, Biden wants to rejoin the dictator’s circle at the UNHRC.
The U.S. owed $674 million in 2019 in membership dues for the privilege of being lectured by cronies of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The Human Rights Council wasn’t any better when the U.S. was involved. The body spends most of its time hounding Israel for existing.
The Human Rights Council, like most of the U.N., can’t be saved or reformed. The U.N. is rotten to its core, based on the faulty assumption that all countries should have an equal say on things such as human rights, regardless of their own record on the subject.
Rejoining the Human Rights Council gives the American seal of approval to farces like this. The U.S. should be reconsidering its current U.N. memberships, not running to rejoin failed institutions that the Trump administration rightfully abandoned.
