A lot of this will be made better if you start reforming and if you show progress on human rights and accountability.
John Sifton: “A lot of this will be made better if you start reforming and if you show progress on human rights and accountability.”
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Sifton discusses the importance of human rights reforms for U.S. military and funding relations.
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I hope one thing that can come out of this hearing is that Members of Congress can press Ambassador Haley on why she made the disastrous, shortsighted and, frankly, childish decision to withdraw from the Human Rights Council yesterday.
Unfortunately, if the U.S. is not going to be in Geneva to do that, it'll fall to other countries, and that is a terrible indictment of this administration's commitment to promoting human rights.
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I think it's good to pivot here to talk about how the U.S. can voice its displeasure with this situation.