The Impact of United States’ Withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council to the Zero Tolerance Policy Victims

Abstract

Many Central American families arrived to US illegally through US –Mexico border from last several years to seek asylum from the United States. In order to discourage this illegal immigration and to reduce the burden of processing asylum, The Department of Justice of United States implemented Family Separation policy under Trump administration on May 07th 2018. Under this policy, when anyone crossed the US-Mexico border illegally with their children, may separate and parents will arrest while children will take for the custody and care. Soon after implemented this family separation policy in US, on July 19th 2018 United States announced their withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council by saying that the Council has chronic bias against Israel. As the main human rights protection body in the world the UNHRC failed to address the US family separation immigration policy with their withdrawal from the Council even their policy violating many human rights of those immigrants. The article will discuss the reason for withdrawal from the Council, the violation of human rights regarding the policy and the impact of the US withdrawal from the Council for the separated families. The methodology of the study is composed of qualitative data. Scholarly articles, publications, research papers and public statements used as the secondary data. Because of the family separation policy violating many fundamental human rights, many countries raised their voice against the policy the US created their own human rights panel to address the family separation policy. The paper concludes that through the strong human rights implementation body world can address such issues when violating human rights throughout the world regardless the states’ power status.