Police thyself

United Nations | A new human-rights panel has a familiar problem: Some of world's worst violators are charter members | Jamie Dean

UN Ambassador John Bolton refuses to "put lipstick on a caterpillar and call it a butterfly." But Mr. Bolton recently told the House International Relations Committee that's precisely what the UN has done by electing notorious human-rights abusers to its newly formed Human Rights Council. The panel of nations charged with exposing and reversing human-rights abuses around the world includes China, Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Russia.

Representatives from 47 nations will gather for the council's inaugural meeting this month at UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The new council will replace the UN's Human Rights Commission, a body discredited for allowing member countries with atrocious human-rights records to protect each other from condemnation. UN leaders said establishing new rules and holding new elections were essential to reforming the highly politicized group.

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