David Ruccio — Worker Rights Inwards The United States

Ambassador Nikki Haley’s determination terminal calendar week to withdraw the U.S. from the UN Human Rights Council is remarkable. The U.S. is the outset state inwards the body’s 12-year history to voluntarily withdraw itself from membership inwards the council piece serving every bit a member.

Some bring alleged that the timing of Haley’s determination is conspicuous. “The move,” read the 2nd paragraph of a CNN report on Haley’s decision, “came downwards 1 twenty-four lx minutes menstruum afterward the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed the separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico edge every bit ‘unconscionable.’”

It’s truthful the Trump direction has been threatening to exit the Council for much of the yesteryear year. And the condemnation of the administration’s policy of separating children from their parents on the edge was possibly the terminal straw.

However, inwards my view, at to the lowest degree every bit of import was a study terminal calendar month yesteryear the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty as well as human rights, Philip Alston, on his mission to the U.S. slowly terminal year…. 

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David F. Ruccio | Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame