Venezuela Wins a Seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council

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4 pointskyleblarson5 comments

China got a spot there too, I don't really understand what the UN hopes to gain by putting totalitarian dictatorships that murder their own people onto "human rights" related councils.

Here's a good one about China: https://unwatch.org/deniseho/

And Venezuela murdered 7000 civilians barely a month ago: https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/09/18/venezuela-extrajudicial-...

The UN hopes to be an inclusive club where nations can talk to each other rather than shoot at each other. Sometimes that gets in the way of other objectives, like letting the Human Rights Council actually care about human rights.

Sounds accurate.

I'm unclear why violators should get a seat at the table, but hey...

Your last sentence is confusing. I think the accusation is that they killed 7000 persons during 2018 (and part of 2019) [1], not that they killed all of them in September 2019.

[1] It's a lot of persons!!!

I think the report is new, I could be wrong.

Either way, its too many people.

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