美國威脅退出聯合國人權理事會

Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the UN, is expected to criticise the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, citing the inclusion of human rights abusers among its membership and claiming it has an institutional bias against Israel.

美國駐聯合國大使尼基?黑利(Nikki Haley)預計將在週二對聯合國人權理事會(UN Human Rights Council)提出批評。她會提到該理事會把侵犯人權的國家接納爲成員國，並聲稱該理事會對以色列存在制度上的偏見。

Ahead of the first US address to the Geneva-based body since it was established, Ms Haley said the US would decide its membership status after seeing “if they’re really serious about human rights or not”.

這將是自這家總部設在日內瓦的機構成立以來，美國駐聯合國大使首次在其會議上發表講話。黑利在這次講話之前表示，美國將在考察“他們是否真的嚴肅對待人權”後決定本國是否留在該理事會內。

“How can you have a human rights council that has Venezuela and Cuba on it, it just doesn’t make sense,” Ms Haley told Fox News ahead of her trip, saying the two countries use their membership to deliberately block discussion of abuses at home.

黑利在啓程之前告訴福克斯新聞(Fox News)：“一個人權理事會怎麼能接納委內瑞拉和古巴呢？根本就說不通嘛。”她表示，這兩個國家利用其成員國身份，刻意阻撓對其國內侵犯人權行爲的討論。

But critics and human rights groups accuse the Trump administration of being similarly soft on human rights abusers, citing US president Donald Trump’s praise for authoritarian leaders such as Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.

不過，批評人士和人權組織指責特朗普(Trump)政府對侵犯人權的國家的態度也沒強硬到哪去。他們提到了美國總統唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)對菲律賓的羅德里戈?杜特爾特(Rodrigo Duterte)和土耳其的雷傑普?塔伊普?埃爾多安(Recep Tayyip Erdogan)等威權領導人的溢美之詞。

The new administration has approved previously blocked arms sales to countries accused of rights violations and appears to downplay the role of human rights in determining foreign policy.

美國政府此前曾禁止向被控侵犯人權的國家出售武器，但新政府上臺後已批准了這些軍售交易，而且在確定外交政策時似乎不再那麼注重人權因素。