History books will remember Nikki Haley as a key player in the Trump administration’s campaign to undermine universal human rights and international bodies. nyti.ms/2A0IDZ7 1/
During her tenure, the Trump administration withdrew from the U.N. Human Rights Council and UNESCO, pulled out of the negotiations leading up to the Global Compact on Migration, and attacked a U.N. independent human rights expert investigating poverty in the United States. 2/
Haley will leave her post having caused long-term damage to key international human rights bodies and having put the United States in the company of some of the worst human rights abusers. 3/
Haley's departure should not be mistaken as a sign that the Trump admin is retreating from its misguided policy towards int'l rule of law and multilateral institutions now that John Bolton has usurped the role of lodging dangerous attacks on int'l bodies, such as the ICC. 4/ END
