United Nations, June 27 (RHC)-- In news from the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley has slammed a new U.N. report by the special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston, who recently toured the United States.
Haley said: “It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America.” Haley’s comment comes just days after the U.S. pulled out of the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Philip Alston discussed his findings on poverty in the U.S., saying: “Vast numbers of people are left living without enough to get by on, the 40 million living in poverty, the figure of 5.3 million, which has been estimated of people who live in, quote, ‘Third World conditions’ in this country.”
Nikki Haley slams U.N. for examining poverty in United States
Related Articles
Commentaries
MAKE A COMMENT
All fields requiredMore Views
- Founder of sport parachuting in Cuba passes away
- New Freedom Flotilla to set sail for Gaza in defiance of Israel's naval blockade
- Venezuela rejects U.S. claim to protect its oil industry
- Thousands march through the streets of Madrid to demand Spain stop arms sales to apartheid Israel
- Cuba begins 63rd anti-polio vaccination campaign