US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council
The US on Tuesday withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) citing anti-Israel bias. US ambassador Nikki Haley termed the body "a hypocritical and self-serving organisation" which acted as a "protector of human rights abusers and cesspool of political bias". The US was elected to the Council for the first time in 2009 after boycotting it for three years.