The United Nations will not remember Nikki Haley, the outgoing US ambassador to the world body, as a “defender” of human rights, says Louis Charbonneau, the UN director at Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Haley “will not be remembered as a staunch defender of human rights,” Charbonneau said in a statement published on the HRW website on Wednesday.
She “vigorously defended egregious Israeli abuses like the unlawful use of lethal force that killed over 150 protesters in Gaza this year,” he added.
“But her main legacy will be leading the US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council, dismissing it as an ineffective institution that criticized Israel too much,” he noted.
Charbonneau further criticized Haley for branding the Geneva-based council as an anti-Israel “cesspool,” reiterating that the US administration decided to withdraw from the council just after Haley’s attempts to “reform” it received no support from UN members.
“The Human…