"As the top human rights body of the United Nations seeks international scrutiny of systemic racism in response to the recent killings of African Americans by police, some countries are wondering if there is a double standard at play for America rather than the ways other countries are targeted for human rights violations because of dehumanizing their people.
A draft resolution, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, singles out the United States...
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tweeted the resolution is hypocrisy: 'America is not perfect, but it's a farce for the UN Human Rights Council to debate police practices in America, when it refuses to debate concentration camps in China, political murders in Cuba, torture in Syria, state-imposed starvation in NK & slavery in parts of Africa.'
One Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, told the AP it was not appropriate for a democracy with a 'working' judicial system like the United States to be held to the same level of scrutiny that countries like Syria have faced through the commission of inquiry mechanism.
Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, questioned the debate and resolution.
'The main sponsor of the U.N. Human Rights Council resolution singling out the United States is Burkina Faso,' she told Fox News.
She referenced the latest report from Freedom House: 'In June, the parliament adopted a revised penal code that criminalizes the dissemination of information related to terrorist attacks; the revised code also criminalizes speech that can 'demoralize' the defense and security services.'
Bayefsky, a human rights scholar and activist, said: 'In other words, it is difficult to imagine the U.N. Human Rights Council -- with so many of its members both undemocratic and some of the world's worst human rights abusers -- bringing to bear the moral authority necessary to steer or promote change in a democratic society.'..."