U.S. won’t participate in U.N. human rights review

The United States will not participate in a United Nations review of its human rights record, according to a Reuters report citing an unnamed official. The UN’s Universal Periodic Review typically receives reports from all 193 of its member states roughly every five years. Members review reports from other members and often provide nonbinding recommendations. The review began in 2008.

The move was in line with President Trump’s Feb. 4 executive order withdrawing the United States from the U.N. Human Rights Council, a federal official said, according to Reuters. Trump’s order mentioned mission drift and anti-Semitism as reasons for the withdrawal. The United States last conducted the periodic review in 2020, during its previous withdrawal from the council in Trump’s first term.

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