US declines UN human rights review for second year; UN body delays event

Résumé détaillé

State Department accuses Human Rights Council of pushing "anti-American rhetoric", adding that showing up would amount to endorsing its work.

The United States has spurned a meeting of UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) where its human rights record was due to be examined, shunning the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the UN body for the second time in a row.

The US left its seat on the stage of the UN meeting empty on Tuesday and the council decided to postpone the event until January.

A US State Department spokesperson said participation would imply endorsement of the council's work.

"This irredeemable body makes a mockery of human rights through consistent failures to uphold its own 'values' as it pushes anti-American rhetoric," the spokesperson said, without responding to allegations about the US record.

Washington disengaged from the Geneva-based council last year, citing an anti-Israel bias. The scheduled November 2025 review was pushed back until Tuesday in hopes that the US government might change its mind. It did not.

The 47-member council has not directly criticised Washington's rights record but its appointed experts have, such as over migrant deportations. Washington said deportations were carried out in accordance with US immigration law.

The Universal Periodic Review asks all 193 UN member states to submit a rights report every few years and these are reviewed by other states, which provide non-binding recommendations.

UN documents show countries had planned on Tuesday to raise issues such as abortion and the death penalty.

US and international non-governmental organisations also sent nearly 200 UN submissions covering topics from migration to racial discrimination.

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