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This one came just in. The UN Rights Council was elected, and guess which states they chose to fill a portion of the 47 places available. None other than China, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia and Saudi Arabia, the crème de la crème of human rights abusers in the world. Talk about having the fox guarding the chicken coop.

This sounds like a joke, a cruel joke on our account. On our account and on millions of faceless and voiceless people condemned to be oppressed by these and other criminal regimes. Incredibly, the Human Rights Council replaces the Human Rights Commission, in itself long considered to be a bad joke due to the awful rights record of its members. Yes, they were trying to improve the Commission, I kid you not.

Somehow the word nauseating keeps springing to mind.