NEW YORK, -- As the U.N. prepares to name 18 nations tomorrow to its highest human rights body, in an election where the U.S. may lose, human rights groups warned that Pakistan, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, and the United Arab Emirates -- all of whose candidacies are uncontested and therefore virtually guaranteed -- are unfit under the U.N.'s own membership criteria, while the qualifications of Kenya and Sierra Leone were "questionable." Click here for full report PDF -- Executive summary below.
