"In a busy day at the United Nations, diplomats in New York on Monday filled dozens of leadership positions across a range of U.N. bodies, with many going – in some case without even a semblance of a vote – to some of the world's most repressive regimes.
In one of the more striking decisions taken by the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Saudi Arabia was handed a seat on the executive board of the women's empowerment agency U.N. Women for the three-year period 2019-2021.
Meanwhile, ECOSOC decided that the influential 19-seat committee empowered to accredit non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will for the 2019-2022 period include seven countries with poor human rights records – Cuba, Russia, China, Sudan, Bahrain, Libya and Burundi.
The regime that rules Iran was given several leadership posts, including a seat on the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and the executive board of the World Food Program.
The Castro regime in Cuba, apart from its seat on the NGO Committee, was handed posts on the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, U.N. Women, and another body focused on gender equality, the Commission on the Status of Women...
American taxpayers account for 22 percent of the regular budget of the U.N., which includes its major organs like ECOSOC..."