WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government has skipped the meeting of a regional human rights body that is examining the Trump administration’s travel ban and its approval of the Dakota Access pipeline.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in an email that it wouldn’t have been appropriate for the U.S. to participate in Tuesday’s session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights since both the ban and the pipeline are being challenged in court. Toner said the U.S. had informed the IACHR of its decision in advance.
Jamil Dakwar of the American Civil Liberties Union said the U.S. is being “isolationist” by refusing to send anyone to represent the government’s position.
Critics of the ban on travelers from six majority Muslim countries and the pipeline went ahead with their testimony.
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