Venezuela is not the only egregious addition to the UN Human Rights Council

The United Nations Human Rights Council is meant to criticize human rights abuses around the world. Just don’t expect it to say anything about civilian killings in Libya, the slain Sudanese people who had neither freedom of expression nor presumption of innocence, or any of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s human rights abuses.

Why? All three countries now have a seat at the table. On Thursday, the U.N. General Assembly voted to induct all three countries into the ranks of human rights arbiters, despite their blatant disregard for human rights. This is exactly the type of hypocrisy that led the United States to withdraw from the Human Rights Council last year.