Now is the time: The US should leave the UN Human Rights Council

"It has been called 'the worst place to be a woman or a child'. It is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has been governed by Joseph Kabila since 2001, for years a site of mass expulsions and killing, civilian casualties, war, rape, exploitation of natural resources. A genocide in the Congo has caused hundreds of thousands of casualties. There is a real humanitarian emergency in the country, with at least 400,000 children at risk of starvation. Between May and June, 42 mass graves were found in the Congo accounting for more than 400 deaths, including two UN officials sent to the Congo who disappeared on March 12.

And what could the United Nations Human Rights Council have done to honor those dead? No less than electing the Congo to its own committee, of course. That is what happened. There are fifteen new members of the Human Rights Council and the Congo is among them...

Perhaps, after UNESCO, it is now time that the United States and Israel abandon the UN Human Rights Council, and make us recall why it was founded."