ingfully promote the protection of internationally 
recognized human rights. 
(2) The United Nations Human Rights Council 
suffers from fundamental and severe structural 
flaws since it draws its members from the United 
Nations General Assembly without any substantive 
membership criteria, with the perverse result that a 
number of the world’s worst human rights abusers 
are members of the council. 
(3) For example, more than half of the mem-
bers of the United Nations Human Rights Council 
are rated ‘‘Not Free’’ or only ‘‘Partly Free’’ by 
Freedom House in its 2014 Freedom in the World 
report. Only a minority of members were rated 
‘‘Free’’. 
(4) Current membership on the United Nations 
Human Rights Council includes some of the world’s 
worst violators, including China, Congo, Cuba, 
Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Ven-
ezuela, Vietnam, and others. 
(5) The United Nations Human Rights Coun-
cil’s agenda contains a permanent item for criticism 
of the democratic, Jewish State of Israel, but no 
permanent items criticizing any other state or non- 
state actor. 
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(6) Since 2006, the United Nations Human 
Rights Council has a largely disproportionate num-
ber of resolutions focused on criticizing Israel. 
(7) Since 2006, the United Nations Human 
Rights Council has held 22 special sessions to ad-
dress dire and critical humanitarian crises through-
out the world, with 7 focused on criticizing Israel, 
more than any other two nations combined, despite 
the fact that the United Nations currently has de-
clared four of the world’s humanitarian crises 
(Syria, Iraq, South Sudan and the Central African 
Republic) a ‘‘Level 3’’, its highest designation. 
(8) On July 23, 2014, the United Nations 
Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to in-
vestigate purported violations of international hu-
manitarian and human rights laws in Gaza and the 
West Bank. The resolution contained over 1,700 
words criticizing Israel for supposed human rights 
violations in Gaza, yet does not mention Hamas, the 
designated foreign terrorist organization responsible 
for using Palestinian children, women, and men as 
human shields and launching thousands of rockets 
indiscriminately into Israeli civilian populations, 
even once. 
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(9) The July 23, 2014, resolution passed with 
29 votes in favor, 17 abstentions and the United 
States as the lone dissenting vote. 
(10) On August 11, 2014, the United Nations 
named Professor William Schabas to lead a panel of 
inquiry in accordance to the July 23, 2014, resolu-
tion. 
(11) Schabas has made public statements in the 
past that should have precluded him from heading 
the panel as an unbiased participant, and should 
recuse himself. Among his incendiary and biased re-
marks, Schabas has stated ‘‘Actually, my favourite 
would be Netanyahu within the dock of the Inter-
national Criminal Court,’’ in 2012, indicating a clear 
conflict of interests and lack of impartiality. 
(12) In 2006, the George W. Bush Administra-
tion voted against the resolution that created the 
United Nations Human Rights Council in the 
United Nations General Assembly over concerns 
about the Council’s reforms and its ability to advo-
cate for human rights and decided to not seek a seat 
on the Council. 
(13) In June 2008, citing its skepticism regard-
ing the function of the United Nations Human 
Rights Council in terms of fulfilling its mandate and 
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its imbalanced approach and Israel bashing agenda, 
the Bush Administration announced it would limit 
its engagement with the Council. 
(14) In 2008, the Bush Administration an-
nounced it would withhold United States funding to 
the United Nations regular budget equivalent to the 
United States share of the United Nations Human 
Rights Council budget. 
(15) In March 2009, reversing the previous Ad-
ministration’s policy, the Obama Administration an-
nounced that the United States would run for a seat 
on the United Nations Human Rights Council, and 
won a seat in May 2009. 
(16) United States membership in the United 
Nations Human Rights Council has not led to re-
form of its fundamental flaws nor diminished the 
Council’s virulently anti-Israel behavior. The Council 
has passed over two dozen resolutions criticizing 
Israel since the United States joined in 2009, and 
the world’s worst violators continue to get a pass. 
SEC. 3. LIMITATIONS RELATING TO UNITED NATIONS 
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP AND 
FUNDING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For each and every fiscal year 
that begins after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
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until the Secretary of State submits to Congress a certifi-
cation for such fiscal year that the requirements described 
in subsection (b) have been satisfied— 
(1) the Secretary of State shall withhold from 
a United States contribution for such fiscal year to 
the regular budget of the United Nations an amount 
that is equal to the percentage of such contribution 
that the Secretary determines would be allocated by 
the United Nations to support the United Nations 
Human Rights Council; 
(2) the Secretary of State shall not make a vol-
untary contribution to the United Nations Human 
Rights Council; and 
(3) the United States shall not run for a seat 
on the United Nations Human Rights Council. 
(b) CERTIFICATION.—The certification referred to in 
subsection (a) is a certification of the Secretary of State 
to Congress that— 
(1) the United Nations Human Rights Coun-
cil’s mandate from the United Nations General As-
sembly explicitly and effectively prohibits candidacy 
for membership on the Council of a United Nations 
Member State that— 
(A) is subject to sanctions by the United 
Nations Security Council; and 
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