The latest addition to the UN Human Rights Council? Libya.
Libya was elected Thursday to the United Nations Human Rights Council, over the objections of numerous NGOs that said the country was unfit to serve on the rights body.
A group of 37 human rights organizations had called on the UN’s 192 members not to allow Libya a seat on the Geneva-based council, the UN’s main body dealing with human rights.
They described the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as “one of the world’s most brutal and longest-running tyrannies.”
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