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UN ‘Not Living up to Potential’: Trump Signs Executive Order Withdrawing From UN Human Rights Council and Defunding UNRWA
February 4, 2025

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on February 4 that withdraws the United States from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and prevents funding from going to UNRWA, the UN’s [perpetual] agency for the descendants of Palestinian refugees…The Trump administration previously withdrew from the UNHRC in 2018 because of the council’s anti-Israel bias and failure “to prevent the world’s worst human rights abusers from gaining … membership.” The Biden administration rejoined the council as a full member in 2022. The council maintains a permanent agenda item focusing on Israel — the only permanent agenda item focusing on a single nation — and an open-ended commission of inquiry into Israel. READ MORE

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