Nikki Haley Vows to Pull US ‘Out of the Human Rights Council’, Defund the U.N. ‘As Much as Possible’

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley vowed to pull the United States out of the Human Rights Council on Wednesday, and to defund the United Nations (U.N.) “as much as possible.”

During an interview with Haley on Wednesday evening, Fox News host Sean Hannity protested the decision to appoint Iran as the 2023 chair of the UN Human Rights Council Social Forum:

Iran now, where if a woman does not cover her head could be murdered and get the death penalty, or if you are discovered to be gay or lesbian, they are going to kill you in Iran and give you the death penalty, they are now the head the UN Human Rights Commission. That’s not even a bad joke. That is how corrupt that organization is.

Hannity then asked Haley, “Should America, once and for all, cut ties with all of these globalist organizations?”

Haley — who served as ambassador to the United Nations under former President Donald Trump — replied, “If I become president, we will get out of the Human Rights Council. We would certainly not get back into the Paris Climate Agreement.”

Haley also claimed she would pull the United States out of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).

After Hannity pushed, “Would we get out of the U.N.?” Haley said, “The U.N., the only thing is we would defund the U.N. as much as possible. The only reason, Sean, you don’t get out of the U.N. is we’re one county of five that has a veto, and the number of things we were able to stop China, Russia, and Iran from doing with that veto matters, and so you keep bad things from happening.”

She concluded, “But we don’t have to pay at the level that we’re paying and we don’t have to be in any of those other organizations.”

The U.S. previously pulled out of the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2018 during the Trump administration.

At the time, then-U.N. ambassador Haley condemned the council as a “cesspool of political bias” and accused it of having a “disproportionate focus and unending hostility toward Israel.”

In 2021, the U.S. officially returned to the U.N. Human Rights Council following the election of President Joe Biden.

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