John Sifton: “None of those things should go forward without stringent human rights standards.”

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.

I would submit that membership in an entity who purports to espouse particular values as it relates to basic human rights and yet allows actors who are some of the most egregious violators of those values the positions and authority that…

The U.S. played a huge role in convincing the government to engage with the U.N.

There is no doubt that the Human Rights Council in Geneva is deeply flawed.