Current Affairs - International - Discussion

The United States is set to become the first country to completely skip the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The review was initially scheduled for November 2025 but was postponed to 10 November 2026 after the US failed to send a delegation. The Trump administration refused to participate, expressing concerns that the UN Human Rights Council was biased against the United States and Israel. The UPR is a human rights monitoring mechanism established in 2006 to assess the human rights records of all 193 UN member states every four to five years.