This year, Venezuela sits on the United Nations Human Rights Council despite the egregious human rights violations committed under Nicolas Maduro’s oppressive regime. Venezuela’s election to the world’s highest human rights body is an insult to the millions of people who have fled that country to escape tyranny and economic turmoil. But it should not come as a surprise.
Year after year, we witness the same shameful spectacle take place at the UNHRC, where authoritarian regimes are elected to positions of moral primacy, liberal democracies are subject to endless opprobrium, and the very concept of human rights is fantastically distorted. It is time for principled democratic states to withdraw from the UNHRC.
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