UN Elects China, Russia, UAE, Venezuela to Key Body Overseeing Human Rights Commissions & NGO
“Today’s UN vote gives non-democracies malign influence at the world body. World leaders who failed to prevent it must now speak out for basic decency and morality in UN bodies,”
GENEVA, — UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental organization, condemned today’s election of serial human rights abusers China, Russia, UAE and Venezuela to the 54-member Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a top UN body that regulates human rights groups, shapes the composition of UN women’s rights bodies, and adopts resolutions on subjects ranging from internet freedom to the treatment of prisoners.