Trump abruptly blocks U.S. from appointing anyone to UN committee on racism

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Trump abruptly blocks U.S. from appointing anyone to UN committee on racism
After refusing to renominate human rights lawyer Gay McDougall, administration will send no one at all
Igor Derysh
April 17, 2019 10:00AM (UTC)


The Trump administration will not nominate anyone from the United States to serve on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

A State Department official told Politico that the White House intervened to stop the expected renomination of a human rights lawyer selected by Barack Obama to the 18-member UN panel. As a result, the U.S. will not nominate anyone to the committee.

Gay McDougall, who has served on the committee since 2015, was informed by State Department officials that she would be renominated before the White House abruptly scrapped the plan without providing an explanation, according to the report.

The committee meets three times per year in Geneva to review progress toward the implementation of a 1960s global pact on “the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination.”

McDougall, a human rights expert, told the outlet she intended to finish out her four-year term, which ends this fall.

“I regret that I’m not able to continue, and that was not of my choosing,” she said.

McDougall previously criticized Trump for emboldening racists in the United States around the world.

“Essentially, Trump’s many tweets and dismissive comments have given a green light to bigots around the country to attack their neighbors,” she said in 2016. “All of us who campaign for human rights have been shocked and angered by Trump’s derogatory messages regarding Muslims, Hispanics, women and people with disabilities. It is clear that his rhetoric has led directly to an increase in hate crimes in the US. Now is the time for all those who believe in human rights to stand firm and fight for basic decency.”

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[uponit7771]

1. Cause Red Don is a text book racist

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Forty five MILLION or more of your neighbors will be ALL IN as they say in poker

when he starts killing liberals and POC as well.

[spanone]

2. Did he announce this with or without his hood on?

Help us all.

[Blaukraut]

3. She committed the unforgivable sin of criticizing Dear Leader n/t

[USALiberal]

4. There is no doubt he hates non-white people. Nt

[denverbill]

6. Holding my breath waiting for AIPAC to condemn his racism.

/life

[Hotler]

8. heheheheheheh

[Hotler]

7. The man is an ass. and an ignorant one at that......nt