Responding to questions from journalists at a regular press briefing on Friday, Ravina Shamdasani, for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that the High Commissioner had repeatedly highlighted the significance of multilateralism and the importance of states stepping forward to engage with their human rights responsibilities.
Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, who on Friday reported his findings during his latest US tour on poverty, told the Council, "Human rights promotion requires robust engagement, not behaving like the kid who takes his football and goes home."
Alston noted with regret that Haley had characterized the Human Rights Council as "a cesspool", and had chosen to withdraw from it just days before his presentation.
Speaking of cesspools, Alston said that his report drew attention to those that he had witnessed in Alabama as raw sewage poured into the gardens of people who could never afford to pay 30,000 US dollars for their own septic systems in an area remarkably close to the State capital.
"I concluded that cesspools need to be cleaned up and governments need to act. Walking away from them in despair, as in Alabama, only compounds the problems," he said.
Turning to his report on the United States, Alston noted that the United States had the highest income inequality in the Western world, with 40 million Americans lived in poverty and 18.5 million of those lived in extreme poverty.
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