US to Withdraw Again From UN Human Rights Council, End Funding to UNRWA

The Biden administration reversed both moves in 2021.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres speaks on 2025 priorities to the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Jan. 15, 2025. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

WASHINGTON—The United States will withdraw again from the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and end funding to the U.N. agency dealing with Palestinian refugees, a White House official told The Epoch Times.

The United States withdrew from the UNHRC and ended funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in 2018.