Trump Withdraws From UN Human Rights Council, Ends Funding To UNRWA, Offers CIA Buyout

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Israel quits UN human rights council citing ‘discrimination’

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Trump Withdraws From UN Human Rights Council, Ends Funding To UNRWA

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council, UNRWA, and UNESCO – ending funding to the UN agency which deals with Palestinian refugees.

Trump had previously withdrawn from the UNHRC and ended funding to the UNRWA in 2018, which was reversed by the Biden administration in 2021, before pausing funding to the UNRWA in 2024 over allegations that several of its employees were involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. Those employees were then fired.

As the Epoch Times notes further, the UNHRC and the UNRWA have come under fire by critics who say that both have expressed hostility toward Israel.

The UNHRC, according to the group, is “responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and for addressing situations of human rights violations and making recommendations on them.”

Critics have pointed out that the UNHRC has included countries that violate human rights. Such countries on the council include China, Egypt, Burundi, and Venezuela.

In 2024, Congress passed, as part of a government funding bill, a measure to continue halting U.S. funding for UNRWA through March 2025.

The United States has given the most money of any country to UNRWA. In 2023, the United States gave the group $422 million.

The Epoch Times reached out to the United Nations for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.

UNRWA started in 1950 and, according to the agency, “has played an essential role for over 60 years since its establishment in providing vital services for the well-being, human development and protection of Palestine refugees and the amelioration of their plight, pending the just resolution of the question of the Palestine refugees.”

Its mission is to help Palestinian refugees “achieve their full potential in human development under the difficult circumstances in which they live, consistent with internationally agreed goals and standards.”

However, critics say that UNRWA is a breeding ground for hatred toward the Jewish state through its schools and that Hamas uses its facilities to store weapons, including rockets, and hold hostages.

UNRWA has refuted the criticisms.

Emel Akan contributed to this report.

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Scattered To The Winds: Entire CIA Gets Trump Buyout Offer, USAID Employees Placed On Leave Worldwide

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Wednesday, Feb 05, 2025 – 05:40 PM

With the Trump administration in its third week of its blitzkrieg against the deep state – led by Elon Musk and his genius-level team of DOGE employees, the Wall Street Journal reports that the entire Central Intelligence Agency has been offered the same ‘buyouts’ as every other member of the federal government.

The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire workforce Tuesday, in what officials said is a bid to bring the agency in line with President Trump’s priorities, including targeting drug cartels. (ER: Meaning that the CIA is a HINDRANCE to their war on the cartels?)

The CIA appeared to be the first intelligence agency to tell its employees that they can quit their jobs and receive about eight months of pay and benefits as part of Trump’s push to downsize the federal government. The offer last month made to most civilian federal agencies exempted some categories of federal workers, including those with national security roles.

And given the theme of the new administration seems to be ‘we can do this the easy way, or the hard way,’ we suspect mass layoffs will follow for those who don’t take the deal.

According to a CIA spokeswoman, the move was part of an effort to “infuse the agency with renewed energy.” Whatever that means.

USAID Employees Placed On Leave

In other news, thousands of employees from deep state slush-fund USAID will be placed on leave starting Friday night, in a worldwide order that would affect all “direct-hire personnel” except those on “mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs.”

In a Tuesday statement on its website, USAID said that it would work with the State Department (which it was recently folded into) to arrange and pay for return travel for its various personnel stationed around the world within the month. Those employees who fall under the exception will be notified by Noon EST on Thursday.

USAID employs roughly 10,000 people worldwide, 2/3 of whom work overseas, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Earlier this week, Trump placed USAID under the control of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who became acting head of the organization.

While we know USAID is a slush fund for all sorts of evil malarkey – including funding Burisma, the Wuhan Lab, and Soros orgs, here’s a list of “ridiculous projects” to chew on, courtsey of @RapidResponse47, an official Trump admin account.

— $7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered language”

— $20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq

— $4.5+ million to “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan

— $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities”

— $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala

— $6 million to “transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles”

— $2.1 million to help the BBC “value the diversity of Libyan society”

— $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals, which went to an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group

— $25 million for Deloitte to promote “green transportation” in the country of Georgia

— $6 million for tourism in Egypt

— $2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam

— $16.8 million for a SEPARATE “inclusion” group in Vietnam

~$5 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab

$20 million for a group related to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax

— $1.1 million to an Armenian “LGBT group”

— $1.2 million to help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., build “a state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium”

— $1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers

— $1.5 million to promote “LGBT advocacy” in Jamaica

— $1.5 million to “rebuild” the Cuban media ecosystem

— $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship” in Latin America

$500K to solve sectarian violence in Israel (just ten days before the Hamas October 7 attack)

— $2.3 million for “artisanal and small scale gold mining” in the Amazon

— $3.9 million for “LGBT causes” in the western Balkans

— $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda

— $6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world”

— $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa

— $8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion”

— USAID’s “climate strategy” outlined a $150 billion “whole-of-agency” approach to building an “equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.”

For decades, USAID bureaucrats believed they were accountable to no one — but that era is over.

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