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The CP fails—the US quit the UN’s Human Rights Commission,

destroying hopes of multilat cooperation on similar issues
McVeigh, 18

(Karen, reporter for the Guardian, "Quitting UN human rights council puts US 'on wrong
side of history' – activists", June 21 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/global-
development/2018/jun/21/quitting-un-human-rights-council-puts-us-on-wrong-side-of-
history-activists)
TheTrump administration’s decision to withdraw from the UN human rights council puts
the US on the wrong side of history and should be urgently reversed, activists have said. The council needed
reform, said campaigners, but remained a vital force for accountability and justice in a “post-rights
world”. Washington’s withdrawal, in protest against what it sees as bias and hypocrisy over Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, is the
latest US rejection of multilateral engagement after it pulled out of the Paris climate
agreementand the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said that the
case for human rights and the rule of international law had “lost two captains”. He said the
European Union without the “moral force of the UK” would be weaker following Brexit, and expressed bewilderment over Donald Trump’s policy of separating immigrant children
from their parents at the Mexican border, which was reversed on Wednesday following a huge backlash. “The US was supposed to be a moral leader. We’ve lost the captain on
this team, of the battle for values,” said Egeland. Citing the 1951 refugee convention, created in response to the millions of Europeans who fled violence during the second world
war, Egeland said: “We need to remind ourselves when Europe was full to the brim of our own refugees, we told the world we need the right to asylum. Now we are facing a
new sort of crisis and this time other people are knocking on our doors and saying: ‘We need asylum.’” The US has been a leader in terms of refugee quotas, he said, taking in
on average 100,000 a year from campsunder President Barack Obama. Last September, Trump slashed the cap on admitting refugees to 45,000, far fewer than the average of
about 85,000 over the past decade. “The truly moral leaders are Germany – and Sweden of late – and they have experienced populist backlash,” said Egeland. “We need to

reassess.” Rights groups including Human Rights Campaign, Care International and Freedom House, said the US pullout from the UN human
rights council would “make it more difficult to advance human rights priorities and aid victims of

abuse around the world.” Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, blamed campaigners for contributing to the pullout by playing a “deconstructive
role”. In a scathing letter to human rights watchdogs, Haley criticised opposition to US attempts to drive through a general assembly vote on reform last month. “You put yourself
on the side of Russia and China, and opposite the United States, on a key human rights issue,” she wrote. “You should know that your efforts to block negotiations and thwart
reform were a contributing factor in the US decision to withdraw from the council.” Human rights groups branded as “ridiculous” suggestions that they were trying to undermine
reform or work with Russia. Polly Truscott, foreign affairs adviser for Amnesty UK, said it was feared that changes proposed by the US in the general assembly vote would have
been subjected to hostile amendments and encountered significant opposition, weakening rather than strengthening the council. Suggestions for reform of the council by rights

groups were incremental, she said, and consensus based. “We’ve been working with many member states to improve the human rights council” said Truscott. “ Now the
US is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.” Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s secretary general, said: “The US should
urgently reverse this decision, which places it squarely on the wrong side of history. It is wilfully choosing to undermine the human rights of all people everywhere, and their
struggles for justice.” Christina Bennett, head of humanitarian policy at the Overseas Development Institute, said it was a vital time for the respect of human rights. “I would say

from the research we have done, we are not just in a post-rights world but a post-rules era,” said Bennett. “We are seeing flagrant disregard
for international humanitarian law. In Yemen, parties in the conflict are denying aid convoys and cutting off aid lifelines. The bombing of
hospitals and aid convoys in both Yemen and Syria violates the letter and spirit of the law.” Research on asylum seekers has

revealed a “ripple effect” when countries seen as human rights leaders shirk their
responsibilities, she said, noting that Kenya, Jordan and Indonesia were among countries that had been hosting refugees for decades, but “were now saying
European governments – the architects of the refugee convention – are practising double standards”. Bennett cited Kenya, where the government has threatened to close
Dadaab, one of the world’s largest refugee settlements. Kevin Watkins, chief executive of Save the Children UK, said: “There’s a legitimate argument to be made that the UN
Human rights council needs reform to shift its focus and depoliticise its treatment of human rights cases. Many people would accept that. “What we have to acknowledge is that
the council has produced some profoundly important and impartial reviews of human rights violations around the world, from South Sudan to the Democratic Republic of the
Congo. Withdrawal is never the best strategy for important reform. This is the moment to defend multilateralism and universalism, not withdraw from it.”

Solvency deficit—the UN can’t solve in the US without addressing

immigration
Yesak 14 (Alul Yesak is a student writer at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s
University, "Human trafficking: The failure of states to eradicate slavery" (2014).
Celebrating Scholarship & Creativity Day. Paper 13.
http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/elce_cscday/13)//KA
Stephanie Hepburn and Rita Simon, both political science scholars, did a multiple case
study to understand the failure of the enforcement of these anti-trafficking laws. They
argue that the environment that fosters human trafficking in different states is unique to
each individual state.The study looked at 25 nations throughout the world and
discovered that “each country has its own environmental factors that create a unique set
of anti-trafficking issues and obstacles.”38 For example, in India, one cannot address
the issue of trafficking without also discussing the caste system, as these two issues are
inextricably linked. In the US one cannot properly address the post-trafficking
experience of victims without mentioning the “hot button issue of immigration.”
Human trafficking is a very complicated issue that needs the attention of not only
government but also non-governmental organizations.