Russia voted off UN Human Rights Council

[hobbits_friend]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia has been voted off the United Nations Human Rights Council in a stunning rebuke to the country which is increasingly being accused of war crimes over its actions in Syria.

The 193-member General Assembly on Friday elected 14 members to 47-nation council, the U.N.’s main body charged with promoting and protecting human

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[sugartitty]

Saudi Arabia was successfully re-elected

lol what a fucking joke

[magedragonfire]

I think looking at Saudi Arabia's re-election here is missing the forest for the trees.

The way the UN voting regions are distributed may be flawed, certainly. But the article explains why Saudi Arabia was re-elected - there were simply no other contenders and a certain number of seats for the region had to be filled. They couldn't not win. (China was also re-elected for the same reason in the same region, and is also not a stellar example of human rights.)

Really, the newsworthiest thing about this post is that Russia was not re-elected, because that's actually a new development.

[yamamanama]

Where are they going to find a stellar example of human rights in the Middle East or Asia?