Last week, the United Nations appointed Saudi Arabia as leader of the international body’s symbolically influential human rights’ panel. Unfortunately, this is not parody or satire; one of the world’s leading human rights abusers is now commissioned to head the UN’s Human Rights Council.
UNHRC members, which include China, Russia, and Qatar, proudly welcomed Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UN, Faisal bin Hassan Trad, as their gloriously ordained chair of the group’s Consultative Group, the organization responsible for selecting experts to offer insight on human rights abuses worldwide. The farce of this appointment insults the very name of the council, legitimizing one of the worst human rights violators of the modern era.
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