No Pressure on UN "Human Rights" Council Member Venezuela as Starving Refugees Flee Country

"As the United Nations urges nearby countries to take more responsibility for refugees from the famine-stricken socialist experiment in Venezuela, it is failing to put any significant pressure on President Nicolás Maduro's government for its appalling human rights record-made worse by Venezuela's continued presence on the U.N.'s Human Rights Council.

The U.N.'s refugee agency (UNHCR) announced Friday that the number of asylum applications from Venezuelans had 'soared' with almost 50,000 applying for asylum in 2017, almost double the 27,000 that applied in the entirety of 2016.

The socialist dictatorship has been hit by mass starvation and countless stories of horrific human rights abuses...

Venezuela sits on the Human Rights Council, as do other countries with poor human rights records such as Saudi Arabia and Cuba-something which U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley has repeatedly brought attention to, previously calling the Council a 'haven of dictators.'

'It's hard to accept that this Council has never considered a resolution on Venezuela, and yet it adopted five biased resolutions in March against a single country-Israel,' she said in June. 'It is essential that this Council address its chronic anti-Israel bias if it is to have any credibility.'...

The Human Rights Council has not given any indication it will seek to organize an emergency session to discuss the situation in Venezuela...The lack of pointed statements or significant action to prevent the further deterioration of what was once Latin America's wealthiest nation-while at the same time demanding neighboring countries be more open to refugees-highlights the U.N.'s long record of having a blind spot on a number of abuses by left-wing countries while inflating alleged abuses or concerns committed by America and Israel."