It’s a frightening commentary on the state of freedom in the world today, when in the same week an Iranian women’s-rights lawyer was sentenced to 148 lashes and 38 years in prison, Tehran was appointed to the UN Women’s Rights Committee. That same obscene process appoints wicked human rights abusers, Bolivia, China, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Gabon, Malawi, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Senegal, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, to make up 13 of the 15 members of the UN Human Rights Council.
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