US disapproves of UNHRC as it does not serve its agenda

US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo announced on July 8 a "Commission on Unalienable Rights" has been established to advise the State Department on human rights based on the principles of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Pompeo said: "The time is right for an informed review of the role of human rights in American foreign policy." He said the commission has been set up to answer the basic questions including "what does it mean to say or claim that something is, in fact, a human right". And the mission of the commission is to "provide advice on these questions not as purely abstract academic matters, but in a manner deeply informed by the timeless truths embedded in the American founding with a view to guiding our nation's foreign policy".

Mary Ann Glendon, chair of the commission and a professor of law at Harvard University, said the commission will do its best to carry out the secretary of state's directives and to do so in a way that will help him transform principle into policy.