Un & Human Rights Is The Ultimate Oxymoron

Lorne Gunter, writing in the Edmonton Journal, compares the 47 members of the UN Human Rights Council to Freedom House's list of the "least free" countries in the world—and, predictably, the HRC comes off looking rather silly. "One [member]—Cuba—is among the eight most-repressive governments in the world, as judged by FH," he writes. "And two more—China and Saudi Arabia—are among the bottom 17 countries in respect for human rights." This, he concludes, "goes to show how useless the UN is at protecting human rights."