Rubio: U.S. Has No Place in Broken U.N. Human Rights Council

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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) condemned the Biden Administration's decision to rejoin the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council without meaningful reforms.

"The UN Human Rights Council was created to address the world's most pressing human rights challenges, promote the fundamental rights of all people, and assist in holding accountable those responsible for human rights violations. Tragically, the Council has become a place for despotic regimes to come together and receive international cover to continue to commit their horrific abuses and focus their efforts on targeting Israel.

Current members include China, where the Chinese Communist Party is committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang; Russia, where those who oppose Putin are poisoned or killed; Venezuela, where Maduro's narco-dictatorship has committed crimes against humanity; and Cuba, where medical professionals are trafficked by the regime as part of so-called "foreign medical missions.'

The Human Rights Council is a broken institution that makes a mockery of human rights. Administrations on both sides of the aisle have failed to push for serious reforms of the Council, and the Biden Administration should accept the reality that, as long as the world's worst human rights violators sit on this Council, reform is simply not possible and the Council will never fulfill its mission. President Biden should not give any shred of credibility to this body and instead focus U.S. efforts on working with democratic allies to press for accountability and justice for these brutal regimes and advance the protection of human rights everywhere."

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