UN’s human-rights council wins backing (EDITH M. LEDERER, 5/10/06, Associated Press)
Cuba, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia won seats on the new UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday despite their poor human-rights records, but two rights abusers – Iran and Venezuela – were defeated.
Human-rights groups said they were generally pleased with the 47 members elected to the council, which will replace the highly politicized Human Rights Commission. It was discredited in recent years because some countries with terrible rights records used their membership to protect one another from condemnation.
Seating any non-democracy makes the whole Council a joke.
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