UN makes a mockery of human rights as China, Iran score gig on wayward committee

The United Nations welcomed two new officials to the advisory committee for its Human Rights Council this week in a vote that did not inspire confidence in the humanitarian body.

Iranian diplomat Afsaneh Nadipour and Chinese Communist Party official Ren Yisheng were elected by acclamation as the new Asian representatives for the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday. Their new roles give the Tehran and Beijing regimes direct input into the international body’s policymaking on human rights.

Nadipour and Ren were the only two candidates put forward to fill the empty Asian group seats on the committee. Other U.N. member states were given the opportunity to object, but none did.

“This is typical. In many U.N. elections — I would say

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