The Africa region had four countries on the ballot — Benin, Libya, Mauritania and Sudan — for four seats. But diplomats said the regional group did a last-minute switch, putting Namibia on the ballot instead of Benin to include a nation from southern Africa, so Namibia, Libya, Mauritania and Sudan were elected.
Created in 2006 to replace a commission discredited because of some members' sorry rights records, the new council soon came to face similar criticism. Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement immediately after Thursday's results were announced that:"The Human Rights Council continues to abandon human rights and is now in the business of protecting dictators and war crimes."
The United Nation proves itself to be a joke again. Saudi Arabia on women's rights now it's Venezuela on human rights. Someday they may be taken seriously. One can only hope
NOT LOOKING GOOD for that ILLEGAL AMERICAN REGIME CHANGE PLANS! Why is USA UNABLE to STARVE THE PEOPLE of Venezuela with their UNDERHANDED tactics? It worked so well for the OTHER ILLEGAL REGIME CHANGE WARS for benefit of US CORPORATE $$$ PROFITS, at the expense of those people!
As if it was somehow worse than the United States’ record. Remember Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, secret facilities to torture all over Europe, interventions in Honduras, support Saudi Arabia’s genocide in Yemen etc.Venezuela’s HR record is w/out comparison to the U.S.’s
The UN is a joke.
How does this happen? Toilet paper costs a million dollars there.
Perhaps its time the United States withdraws from the UN and politely asks them to relocate to another country.
DO WHAT
Maybe that will help keep Venezuela in check
UN: 'But they lie so good! Give them a chance.'
Is the UN catering despots now?!
one that was not visible to the grant reviewers — to identify each applicant's race. They found that over a third of the applications from black scientists were tied to just eight of the 150 topic clusters.
AFRICAN AMERICANS UNABLE TO DO HARD SCIENCE CRYING RACISM BECAUSE THEY CANNOT GET GRANTS PATHETIC
This is why we need to get out of the UN and kick them out of our country.
So their legitimising them now?
The UN is useless and a waste of money
Kind of have to agree with the administration on this one. It seems really weird to have a place that abuses human rights on the human rights council. I dont really get the logic on this one
Liberals + Socialist + Democrats = LSD
Evidently The UN seats are for sale.
What kind of bad joke is this? My country is dying and this druglords are rewarded with this. I just can't believe it. A very sad day here I'm Venezuela. We feel like we don't have way out of this Dictatorship. ONU_es shame on you.
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In other words NBC refuses to condemn one of the worst human rights abusers
UN is a complete joke at this point.
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