"The United States withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2018, after years of trying to reform the agency came to naught. But even though the United States is no longer a member, the council still sits in judgment of our country, through its Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This is the process whereby the council reviews the human-rights practices of every country.
Typical of the still-unreformed council, however, the UPR process does not yield an objective assessment. Rather, it's a Kabuki dance designed to establish a false moral equivalence between the world's worst human-rights abusers and countries like the United States..."