UN HRC seat for China
Human rights campaigners have
no hope of excluding China
from getting a seat on the UN Human Rights Counsel, but they are trying
at least to reduce the number of votes it will get.
Other international institutions are likewise structured based on the
assumptions that governments that disrespect human rights wholesale
(not just occasionally in practice, as the US does) will not come to
dominate the institutions. But when they do, it is like a Republican
gerrymander — it is almost impossible to end their unjust influence.