disney for example is a donor for the hrc explicit about this point.orida's hb 50/50 seven also known as the don't say gay bill should have never been passed." this is a company who also hated your kids. not creepy! this goal as a company is to not be repealed but legislature was struck down in court. let's think about this. you are having law passed in a democratically elected state legislature signed by a democratically elected governors supported by a majority of florida voters but must be struck down because the oligarchs of the mouse company don't like it! oh. shouldn't you get back to making kids movies propagandizing for china? shouldn't you get back to florida, you buy mental criminal? you environmental criminal? it's now time to teach kindergartners that they can change their gender by wishing it. it's if that can be true, what exactly can't they consent to? disney didn't say it, but maybe there's another agenda here. in order to explain their fixation on sexuality in children. four disney employees were busted in a major human trafficking sti

so hrc is flawed. but it also does give us the opportunity to shine the spotlight on a number of priorities where we are pressing for accountability. as i mentioned, the commission of inquire on syria, the special reporters for iran, north korea, dprk and burma. so a flawed institution, but one we want to make better by being at the table. we're more effective, my strong belief, when we're there pushing back on these issues. >> i'm out of time. thank you. >> thank you. all right. we'll go to vice chair jacobs. >> well, thank you very much, mr. chair, and thank you, assistant secretary, for testifying before the committee. i wanted to follow up on your answer to the chairman on u.s. standing at the u.n. and i wanted to talk about u.s. peacekeeping arrears at the u.n. and the impact it has on u.s. influence and standing. can you describe the specific impact arrears, past due payments, have had on the capabilities of peacekeeping operations and how have china or russia used this issue to their advantage a

the hrc is flawed, it is a flawed membership. we will continue to work for medium-term, long-term change in the membership of the human rights council, so that we can work with a group of countries with better human rights records. we are going to continue to engage with like-minded emperors on the council, try to encourage countries with good human rights records, good democracy and transparency records, to actually run and be candidates for the council, engage with you, ranking member, other members of this committee on how we can get the hrc to focus on some of these worst violators. i agree, having russia, china, cuba, venezuela on there is problematic. hrc is flawed, but it also does give us the opportunity to shine the spotlight on a number of priorities where we are pressing for accountability. as i mentioned, the commission for inquiry on serbia, special rappateur for iran, burma. it is a flawed institution but one that we want to make better while being at the table. i believe we are more effective when we are pushing ba

the hrc is flawed, it is a flawed membership. we will continue to work for medium turn, long term change in the membership of the human rights council. so we can work with a group of countries with better human rights records. we are going to continue to engage with like-minded members on the council and try to encourage countries with good human rights records, good democracies and transparent records to actually run or to be candidates for the council. to engage with new ranking members and other members of this committee on how we can get the hr sea to focus. on some of these worst violators. i agree having russia, china, cuba, venezuela is very very problematic. so hrc it's flawed but it gives us the opportunity to shine a spotlight on a number of priorities where we are pressing for accountability. as i mention the commission of inquiry on syria, the special repertoire is for iran, north korea, dprk, and so a flawed institution but one we want to make better by being at the table. we are more effective when where they are pu

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been the most powerful lobby in washington if you been around for 40 years and for most of that time, hrc'sght for gay people to get legally married. in the summer of 2015, they finally succeeded and succeeded

is the global spokesperson for the un hrc, the un refugee agency. 0ur correspondent kasia madera is onon that has happened in ukrainejust across the borderfrom me, one thing is constant — the flow of people coming through. these people have just crossed over the borderfrom ukraine. theirjourneys to get here have been long, they've been uncertain. we've been seeing the scenes back in lviv of what has been happening as the people have been crossing into trains, crossing through with their cars, leaving their cars, running out of fuel, crossing by foot like all of these people that have just literally crossed the border here into poland, theirfirst time to have an opportunity to just get something warm to drink, their first time to get something to eat. this whole community, this whole centre has popped up and it's very transient. we've been here all week and things change. tents pop go, tents go, but what is constant also along along with the flow of people coming across the border is the support that poland is offering to those people who have fled. volunteers in their hundreds bringing