Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley spoke at the Heritage Foundation on Wednesday and absolutely blistered the organization’s Human Rights Council, calling it the UN’s “greatest failure.”
Some excerpts from the fiery speech…
Many member nations of the UN “reject” the UN’s “nobel purpose — to promote peace and security based on justice, equal rights, and the self-determination of people”:
"The UN was founded for a noble purpose – to promote peace and security based on justice, equal rights, and the self-determination of people—but it has many member nations whose leaders completely reject that purpose." @nikkihaley https://t.co/vcMXUHI9EQ #HaleyAtHeritage
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) July 18, 2018
And the Human Rights Council gives these nations “cover” and has become “a bully pulpit for human rights violators”:
"… the Human Rights Council has provided cover, not condemnation, for the world’s most inhumane regimes. It has been a bully pulpit for human rights violators." @nikkihaley https://t.co/vcMXUHI9EQ #HaleyAtHeritage
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) July 18, 2018
Haley went on to name names:
"The dictatorships of Cuba, China and Venezuela all have seats on the Council. Not only was Venezuela a member—but in 2015 the Council invited its dictator, Nicholas Maduro, to speak to a special assembly. He got a standing ovation." https://t.co/vcMXUHI9EQ #HaleyAtHeritage pic.twitter.com/nEvxGqvaKB
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) July 18, 2018
She also took a shot at Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch for siding with Russia and China in the past:
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"Groups like @amnesty International and @HRW Human Rights Watch sided with Russia and China on a critical human rights issue—and I’ll let you be the judge of their reasoning." https://t.co/vcMXUHI9EQ #HaleyAtHeritage pic.twitter.com/QXomcW7QZI
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) July 18, 2018
Haley went on to criticize “pro-human rights countries that refused to speak up”:
"Even more troubling was the pro-human rights countries that refused to speak up … after months of agreeing with us on all of the flaws of the Human Rights Council, they would not take a stand unless it was behind closed doors, outside of public view." #HaleyAtHeritage
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) July 18, 2018
And the U.S. will be silent no more:
Many of our friends urged us to stay for the sake of the institution.
The United States, they said, provided the last shred of credibility the @UN_HRC had. But that was precisely why we had to withdraw. #HaleyAtHeritage— Greg Scott (@GScottSays) July 18, 2018
Can’t argue with this:
"In the end, the United States couldn’t convince enough countries to stand up and declare that the Human Rights Council was no longer worthy of its name." @nikkihaley #HaleyAtHeritage pic.twitter.com/YcfJeyyw8i
— John Cooper (@thejcoop) July 18, 2018
And, BAM!
I will use my voice. Not just because I am a mother. Not just because I am an ambassador. But because I am an American. And America can no more abandon the cause of human rights than abandon itself. #HaleyAtHeritage pic.twitter.com/Fi02Urosui
— Greg Scott (@GScottSays) July 18, 2018
Ambassador Nikki Haley: "America can no more abandon the cause of human rights than abandon itself. It is who we are. It is who we’re proud to be. And it’s who we will always be.” #HaleyAtHeritage
— US Mission to the UN (@USUN) July 18, 2018
.@USUN Amb. Haley: The U.S. does more for human rights, both inside the @UN, and around the world, then any other country. And we will continue to do that. pic.twitter.com/CwpnoCrB7U
— Department of State (@StateDept) July 18, 2018
Full video here:
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