Imagine the outcry if Donald Trump appointed five members of the Ku Klux Klan to oversee race relations.
There would be worldwide outrage. People would riot in the streets. Leaders around the world would denounce the decision and threaten to end diplomatic relations.
Well, today the United Nations is expected to appoint five serial human rights abusers to its Human Rights Council – and there will be barely a murmur of protest.
China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Cuba will all take their place on the 47-nation council from which they will lecture the rest of the world on human rights.
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