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The Latest: US urged to act upon its own human rights


Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley to Geneva and the U.N. Human Rights Council (all times local):3:45 p.m.A top civil liberties defender is urging the United States to "practice what it preaches" on human rights after U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley addressed the U.N.'s main human rights body. John Fisher of Human Rights Watch said the U.S. "only achieves its stated reforms by engaging, not by walking away." The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has decried the "rapidly deteriorating human rights situation" in Venezuela, and says its government should withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council if it can't address the problem. Most of Zeid's speech Tuesday to the Human Rights Council denounced a lack of access for his staffers and rights experts to countries to investigate alleged human rights violations.


Source: Fox News June 06, 2017 10:52 UTC



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