Donald Trump signs a decree to withdraw the United States from the UN Human Rights Council

The American president signed a decree on Tuesday to withdraw the United States from the UN Human Rights Council.
Donald Trump signed an executive decree on Tuesday, February 4 to withdraw the United States from several UN bodies and review Washington funding from the international organization sitting in New York.
The American president’s decree notably withdraws the United States from the UN Human Rights Council, an body of which they are not a Member State, but only an observer. It thus aims to prohibit any future involvement of Washington in the body, even if the exact withdrawal mechanism as an observer state remains uncertain.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Trump’s viewfinder
The text also extends the suspension of all American funding at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). The United States, and several other countries, had suspended its financial contribution to UNRWA after accusations of Israel in January 2024 claiming that some of the organization’s employees participated in the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023.
The text was decided “with regard to the numerous measures taken by a number of United Nations bodies which demonstrate a deep anti -American bias,” said Will Scharf, advisor to Donald Trump, when presenting the document to the American president His signature.
The decree also aims to “review American involvement in UNESCO”, the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture, “which has also demonstrated an anti -American bias”, added Will Scharf .
“More generally, the executive decree calls for an examination of American involvement and financing in the UN in view of the crazy disparities in the financing levels between different countries,” said the advisor, recalling that Donald Trump had qualified these Differences of “deeply unfair for the United States”.
Upon his return to the White House, on January 20, Donald Trump had signed an executive decree aimed at withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), an organization he had in the past criticized for His management of the COVID-19 pandemic.