Nikki Haley’s Concern for Human Rights Only Went So Far
The outgoing U.S. ambassador to the UN criticized U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia, but also pulled out of the UN Human Rights Council.
During her confirmation hearing to be President Donald Trump’s envoy to the United Nations, Nikki Haley told U.S. senators, “I will never shy away from calling out other countries for actions taken in conflict with U.S. values and in violation of human rights and international norms.” For the most part, Haley, who announced Tuesday that she would step down at the end of the year, held true to that commitment.
Yet at the same time, she was unsparing when the issue of human rights conflicted with American policy or that of its allies, as it did when she announced in June that the United States was withdrawing from
