The Human Rights Council is responsible “for promoting universal respect for the protection of all human rights.” Given this responsibility, the election of Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba and Russia is paradoxical.
Russian President Putin's recent shred of diplomacy regarding Syria is emblematic of how both Russia and the US will follow or break international law depending on their own national interests - regardless of whether it helps the Syrians who have already long been oppressed and slaughtered by Assad’s government.
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