As Venezuelans die on the streets, U.N. Human Rights Council remains mum
The Geneva-based UNHRC, whose job is to
“uphold the highest standards” of human rights across the world, has not issued
one single resolution about Venezuela, nor convened any urgent session to
discuss the crisis there, nor called for any inquiry into the deaths of
protesters by armed government-backed mobs. There is a reason for that
inaction, of course. About half of the council’s 47 member countries are
dictatorships — including Cuba, China, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela — who
defend one another against charges of human-rights violations. In fact, the
UNHRC is a mutual protection society for the world’s worst dictatorships. More…
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