Today, @StateDept is holding an “off the record and closed to the press” meeting with NGOs regarding the United States’ UPR report to the UN Human Rights Council. Yes, that Council the Trump admin withdraw from in June 2018 and @NikkiHaley called it a “cesspool of political bias”
The ‘consultation’ is taking place just one week before the report’s submission to the UN which will be reviewed on May 11, 2020. Clearly, Trump administration is more interested to use the UPR to hold other countries accountable than addressing its abysmal human rights record.
The ACLU submitted a short report to the @UNHumanRights focusing on excessive and disproportionate sentences in the United States, including life and life-without-parole sentences and the death penalty. aclu.org/hearing-statem…
Other groups have made submissions on wide range of human rights violations in the United States including @hrw, @UNAUSA, @CLShumanrights, @P4HR, @The_Advocates, @WaterProtectUs, @GlobalJusticeC. You may find more information on the @USHRN website: upr2020.org
Oh, one last thing. Reply to let @StateDept @StateDRL know what you think about human rights in the U.S. state.gov/universal-peri… In fact, they are welcoming comments which you can also submit here: USUPR2020@state.gov. Accountability for U.S. human rights abuses matter. #USUPR
Although the meeting was off the record, I don’t think anything that was said by the government officials shouldn’t be shared with the press and the general public. Anyway, I’m sharing ‘unclassified’ picture with dear colleagues who attended the so called consultation. 
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