By providing a forum for murderers, the UN Human Rights Council undermines its own mission

The United Nations Human Rights Council convened a new session on Monday, and it will no doubt initiate important dialogue on how the world might make life better for all of its people.

With the council now in its 12th year, one wonders whether it could have prevented atrocities and widespread abuses had it been founded much earlier than 2006. The free and democratic nations of the world have shamefully turned a blind eye to mass killings and systematic repression at various points in recent history.