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The U.S. has announced that it won't seek a seat on the new U.N. Human Rights Council.(Brief article)
* The U.S. has announced that it won't seek a seat on the new U.N. Human Rights Council. In the spirit of "he who lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas," one might think this a good thing. After all, the whole point of reforming the old U.N. Human Rights Commission was to keep states like Libya, Cuba, and Sudan from gaining seats on it, but the new body is, if anything, more likely to be dominated by human-rights abusers. Yet the U.S. announcement hardly looks like a statement of principle. The ...
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