US Elected To Seat On UN Human Rights Council

Yesterday's Washington Post reports that the United States for the first time has been elected to membership on the 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council. The U.S. has been strongly critical of the workings of the Council, and in the Bush administration chose not to seek a seat on it. (See prior posting.) U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice said there are still problems with the Council, but added: "We are looking forward to working from within with a broad cross-section of member states to strengthen and reform the Human Rights Council." (See prior related posting.) A State Department release also announces the U.S. election to the 3-year term on HRC. [Thanks to Alliance Alert for the lead.]