The U.S. House of Representatives passed U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary of National Significance Act (S. 50) to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to formally enroll the Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary Program (PPBEP)...
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English/Español: Rubio: U.S. Has No Place in Broken U.N. Human Rights Council
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) condemned the Biden Administration’s decision to rejoin the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council without meaningful reforms.
“The UN Human Rights Council was created to address the world’s most pressing human rights challenges, promote the fundamental rights of all people, and assist in holding accountable those responsible for human rights violations. Tragically, the Council has become a place for despotic regimes to come together and receive international cover to continue to commit their horrific abuses and focus their efforts on targeting Israel.
Current members include China, where the Chinese Communist Party is committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang; Russia, where those who oppose Putin are poisoned or killed; Venezuela, where Maduro’s narco-dictatorship has committed crimes against humanity; and Cuba, where medical professionals are trafficked by the regime as part of so-called ‘foreign medical missions.’
The Human Rights Council is a broken institution that makes a mockery of human rights. Administrations on both sides of the aisle have failed to push for serious reforms of the Council, and the Biden Administration should accept the reality that, as long as the world’s worst human rights violators sit on this Council, reform is simply not possible and the Council will never fulfill its mission. President Biden should not give any shred of credibility to this body and instead focus U.S. efforts on working with democratic allies to press for accountability and justice for these brutal regimes and advance the protection of human rights everywhere.”
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- October 27, 2016: Rubio: U.S. Should Reject Broken U.N. Human Rights Council
Washington, D.C. — El senador estadounidense Marco Rubio (R-FL) condenó la decisión de la Administración Biden de volver al Consejo de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) sin reformas significativas.
“El Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU se creó para abordar los desafíos más urgentes en temas de derechos humanos del mundo, para promover los derechos fundamentales de todas las personas y para ayudar a responsabilizar a los culpables de violaciones a los DD.HH. Trágicamente, el consejo se ha convertido en un lugar para que regímenes tiranos se unan y reciban cobertura internacional para continuar cometiendo sus abusos y concentrar sus esfuerzos para atacar a Israel.
Los miembros actuales incluyen a China, donde el Partido Comunista Chino está cometiendo actos de genocidio contra musulmanes uigures y otras minorías en Xinjiang; Rusia, donde los que se oponen a Putin son envenenados o asesinados; Venezuela, donde la narco-dictadura de Maduro ha cometido crímenes de lesa humanidad; y Cuba, donde los profesionales de la salud son víctimas de la trata de personas a manos del régimen cubano en las llamadas ‘misiones médicas al exterior’.
El Consejo de Derechos Humanos es una institución rota que se burla de los DD.HH. Las administraciones pasadas, de ambos partidos, no han logrado impulsar reformas serias para el Consejo. La Administración Biden debe aceptar la realidad que, mientras los peores violadores de DD.HH. del mundo están sentados en este Consejo, la reforma simplemente no será posible y el Consejo nunca cumplirá su misión. El presidente Biden no le debería dar credibilidad a este organismo y, en cambio, centrar los esfuerzos de EE.UU. en trabajar con aliados democráticos para presionar por la rendición de cuentas y en la lucha por la justicia contra estos regímenes brutales y avanzar en la protección de los DD.HH. en todas partes”.