The United Nations’ top human rights body welcomed several new members Monday with disturbing track records of abuses that flout the organization’s own membership criteria.
The U.N. General Assembly elected 15 countries to its Human Rights Council, a 47-member organization responsible for the “promotion and protection” of global human rights.
Among the new members were three countries that watchdog groups singled out as “gross abusers” of their citizens’ human rights: Qatar, Pakistan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental organization, said those countries have poor human rights records and should have been disqualified from sitting on the council. – READ MORE
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