@Gabrielle this one is not like the others. While e.g. UNESCO is part of the UN system, it is a separate organization, which the US can join and leave separately from the rest by signing or withdrawing from a treaty.

The UNHRC is an organ within the UN proper. Its members are elected by the UN General Assembly for three-year terms, and no country can have more than two consecutive terms. So there must have been times when the US was not in the Council already.

Maybe this could resolve as "the US does not present as candidate when the relevant time comes", but that's harder to verify than leaving a treaty.

@BrunoParga Dangit, I thought I had checked every option to make sure they were things that the US could leave, but I must have missed this one.

I’ll likely resolve it as N/A, but since there’s no rush I’ll take some time to research it and see if there’s a reasonable interpretation.

Thanks for the callout!

@Gabrielle oops: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkog7qwk1e

I was wrong. Both the US, yesterday, and now Israel, which this article is about, have announced they'll no longer sit at UNHRC meetings, even as observers.

@BrunoParga Thanks for catching that! I’ll continue to monitor but it looks like that should be sufficient.

withdrawing from the ICAO would cause all sorts of random issues

There's probably a lot of upcoming standards surrounding drones and personal VTOL etc that will be defined in the next few years. Better to be a rule maker than a rule taker.

@MalachiteEagle Trump's a rule breaker.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-executive-withdrawing-world-health-organization-2025-01-21/

@AlexeiPotter It's a twelve month notice period, so it doesn't resolve yet, but it is extremely likely in my opinion.

While the order says U.S. withdrawal will be effective "immediately" once notice is given, the Paris Agreement itself stipulates that the process takes a full year.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5266207/trump-paris-agreement-biden-climate-change