Venezuela won a contested election for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council despite a campaign by more than 50 organizations and many countries opposed to Nicolas Maduro's government and its rights record.
The Africa region had four countries on the ballot — Benin, Libya, Mauritania and Sudan — for four seats. But diplomats said the regional group did a last-minute switch, putting Namibia on the ballot instead of Benin to include a nation from southern Africa, so Namibia, Libya, Mauritania and Sudan were elected.
Created in 2006 to replace a commission discredited because of some members' sorry rights records, the new council soon came to face similar criticism. Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement immediately after Thursday's results were announced that:"The Human Rights Council continues to abandon human rights and is now in the business of protecting dictators and war crimes."
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