U.N. in 2017: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Abdulaziz Alwasil, Saudi Arabia’s new representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council, with Michael Møller, Director-General of the U.N. European Headquarters in Geneva. UN Photo/Pierre Albouy

Welcome to 2017 at the United Nations, where the following regimes are among those chosen to define, promote and protect human rights for the world:

  • Genocidal Syria holds a senior post on the U.N. decolonization committee charged with upholding fundamental human rights in opposing the “subjugation, domination and exploitation” of people, with Assad’s ambassador, Bashar Ja’afari, serving as Rapporteur.

 

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