It’s true that countries with questionable human rights records have been members of the UN Human Rights Council in the past. But there has never been a time when a country who prosecuted a genocidal war that killed at least 600,000 persons at a time has been selected to the council that works for monitoring, promoting, and protecting human rights across the globe.
The selection of Ethiopia to the Council at a time when it has not even taken responsibility for the genocide and the atrocities and destruction thereof is a tragic mistake on the part of the UN.
The UN is allowing a state standing accused of genocide to have a seat among countries monitoring states’ adherence to global human rights norms.
This amounts to ennobling hypocrisy. It simply ignores the plight of the victims of genocide and the demands of survivors for justice.
It rewards impunity.
Above all, it undermines the authority of the Council to stand in defence of human rights.
This election of Ethiopia to the UN body suggests that the UN is indifferent to acts of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, thereby implicating the UN in the egregious violation of the very rights it promises to uphold.
What of the UN is worth keeping now? What goal is it serving now?
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