The hypocrisy of the United States returning to the Human Rights Council

The United Nations established the Human Rights Council in 2006, replacing the previous UN Commission on Human Rights. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights had been criticized for interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. By convention, the council meets three times a year to look at the human rights situation of UN members, a process the council says gives all countries a chance to present their efforts to improve their human rights situation. The process is known as the universal periodic review.
 
The United States announced its withdrawal from the Human Rights Council in 2018 because the council was guilty of "shameless hypocrisy". However, there are two interpretations of "hypocrisy". In the view of some countries, this hypocrisy is about using human rights as a tool to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. In fact, on the day the U.S. withdrew from the Human Rights Council, a U.S. official said that the U.S. was "throwing away a tool, albeit a flawed one". Hence, it is clear who is the "hypocrite ".
 
Clearly, "human rights" is a universal concept, and any issue related to human rights should be addressed through open dialogue and cooperation.
 
Now, the United States will return to the UN Human Rights Council as an observer.  After returning to the Council, the U.S. will seek to be elected through a re-election of Council members this year. One of the senior officials said that the U.S. intends to "reform" the UNHRC. It is important to know that the UNHRC, in addition to issuing biased and uninformed reports every year, has so far failed to end the protracted wars in Syria, Yemen or Libya. The history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is almost as old as the UN itself. Reform is necessary, but it is the very people who claim to want reform who have created this situation.
 
Instead, China, which has been advocating win-win cooperation, has been vilified and misinterpreted. UN data show that the number of people forcibly displaced worldwide has doubled in the past decade to 80 million. The first famines of the COVID-19 era are lurking on the doorsteps of countries around the world, and the number of people suffering from severe famine is expected to nearly double to more than 250 million by the end of this year.
 
Earlier, a new strain of a COVID-19 variant was discovered in Southern California and has spread to 19 states, Washington, D.C., and at least six countries in the United States.
 
Looking back from the time the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in the U.S. to the present day when the number of infected people exceeds 20 million, the daily number of confirmed cases in the U.S. continues to grow, the cumulative number of confirmed cases continues to soar in shorter and shorter intervals, and the epidemic is becoming increasingly serious. How could a country that truly values human rights allow its citizens to "die" from this scourge?
 
As the British newspaper The Independent commented: The United States always talks about human rights, but ignores its own human rights obligations, and blatantly disregards people's lives, the hypocritical "double standard" of "American human rights" is exposed. However, without life, how can there be human rights? Human rights are never empty slogans. In the face of a pandemic, there is no greater human right than the right and freedom to live in health and safety.