Look Who Will Be Joining the U.N. Human Rights Council

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on Weekly Standard The U.N. Human Rights Council has an election coming up in October, which can mean only one thing: A new slate of human rights abusers are poised to be elected to the U.N.'s top human rights body. The council already currently includes such human rights luminaries as: China, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. They will be joined—at minimum—by the notorious Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Angola. The election of these new states—both ranked by Freedom House in the lowest possible category of human rights protection ("not free")—is a done deal because of a deliberate U.N. process. Each of the five U.N.