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Following a combative vote last week to allow controversial U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk another four-year term, France used an official French mission account to attack the United States.
On Saturday, France ONU Genève wrote on X, “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore.”
“Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali & Russia, isolated. And the world no longer listens to it,” and ended with the hashtag #AmericaAlone.
The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali & Russia, isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.#AmericaAlone https://t.co/GLNMsYEH9n pic.twitter.com/UTVvljTMeO
— France ONU Genève (@FranceONUGeneve) July 25, 2026
Ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, hit back and suggested that France’s attack was an attempt to distract from its support for Türk.
“It is disappointing — though not surprising,” he wrote on X, “that this is how France deflects on its shameful vote to coddle some of the worst human rights abusers.”
“France voted for someone who has been lecturing free, sovereign democracies like the United States, the UK, and Israel, while cozying up to the world’s worst oppressors.”
The U.S. Mission to the UN added, “The UN human rights system has been losing credibility for decades.”
“Volker Türk led it to its deathbed.”
“Today’s vote kicked the bucket.”
.@AmbUNReform: The UN human rights system has been losing credibility for decades.
Volker Türk led it to its deathbed.
Today’s vote kicked the bucket. pic.twitter.com/9yBB516mAp
— U.S. Mission to the UN (@USUN) July 24, 2026
Türk’s tenure has drawn substantial criticism, particularly regarding perceived selectivity, bias, and insufficient pressure on authoritarian regimes.
A December 2024 UN Watch report analyzed his public statements and found he condemned the United States more frequently than China, North Korea, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar combined.
He was described as largely silent on systematic abuses by regimes in Cuba, North Korea, Algeria, Eritrea, Mauritania, Lebanon, and Qatar, while more readily criticizing democracies (e.g., the US, UK, Australia, Italy, France).
He issued far more statements on the Israel-Hamas war/Gaza, dozens of which condemn Israel, than on conflicts affecting larger numbers of people, such as those in Ukraine, Sudan, or Myanmar.
He is also perceived to have a softness toward certain authoritarian states, with critics arguing he has been insufficiently forceful on China with limited public criticism of Xinjiang/Uyghurs relative to the scale of documented issues, Iran, despite some condemnations of executions, and others.
He has faced backlash from Venezuela and was declared ‘persona non grata’ by its National Assembly after documenting abuses there.
Türk also condemned the Trump administration’s strikes against drug cartels in the Caribbean Sea and demanded an immediate investigation into the recent strikes.
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