BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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Why has the US withdrawn from the UN council for human rights – and what is its significance?
The Trump administration’s decision represents part of its drive to consolidate support for a right-wing populist world view, writes JOHN FOSTER
The United States' empt seat at the UN Human Rights Council
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
ON June 19 the United States withdrew from the UN council for human rights. The reasons? US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley described the council as a “cesspool of political bias” and criticised its “unceasing hostility towards Israel.” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the council of “shameless hypocrisy” and of “enabling human rights abuses by absolving wrongdoers by silence.”
The US withdrawal was backed by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who described the council as a “biased, hostile, anti-Israel organisation that has betrayed its mission of protecting human rights.”
The EU, on the other hand, reasserted its “steadfast commitment to the human rights council.”
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