The Trump administration withdrew from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council on Tuesday, making good on a pledge to leave a body it accused of hypocrisy and bias against Israel.“For too long, the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers, and a cesspool of political bias,” Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the UN, said Tuesday at the State Department in Washington.

Indonesian lawmakers are facing scrutiny from human rights groups and LGBT organisations for their draft of amendments to the national Criminal Code. The amendments, which are currently being finalised in the People’s Representative Council include laws that would punish extramarital sex, cohabitation between couples and same-sex activities. Indonesia is looking to update its Criminal Code, which they inherited from their Dutch colonisers.

The United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution condemning the systemic human rights violations in Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslims in the northern Rakhine State.