Speaking with Reuters, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights senior staff attorney Sarah Decker denounces the United States’ unprecedented refusal to participate in a formal UN review process.
Held regularly since 2008, the UN’s Human Rights Council conducts a Universal Period Review of each member state every four and a half years. These formal peer reviews are an important platform for international accountability, with civil society organizations and nonprofits submitting reports on relevant human rights issues and violations.
This year, the U.S. decided to boycott the proceedings – a decision that, as Decker notes, “strips away an additional level of oversight for the human rights abuses happening every day under this administration.”
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