UN Human Rights Council Opens With Poorest Membership Yet; Sanctioned Iranian to Speak

By Patrick Goodenough | February 26, 2018

 

The United Nations’ top human rights body begins a four-week session in Geneva on Monday, boasting the largest numbers of autocratic and repressive regimes among its members in its 13-year history.

No fewer than 14 of the diplomats who fill the council’s 47 seats (29.7 percent) for the 37th regular session represent countries that are ranked “not free” by Freedom House, the veteran Washington-based watchdog which grades countries annually on political rights and civil liberties.

Never before since the HRC was established in 2006 has the number of “not free” members been that high. Previously the largest contingent of “not free” members was 13 (27.6 percent), in 2010, and the smallest number was eight (17 percent), in 2009..........To Read More....

My Take - And we're surprised?  The UN is the most corrupt incompetent organization the world has ever known, so why should we expect their Human Rights Council be any different?