By providing a forum for murderers, the UN Human Rights Council undermines its own mission

UANI Advisory Board Member Giulio Terzi, writes in the Washington Examiner: "The United Nations Human Rights Council convened a new session on Monday, and it will no doubt initiate important dialogue on how the world might make life better for all of its people. With the council now in its 12th year, one wonders whether it could have prevented atrocities and widespread abuses had it been founded much earlier than 2006. The free and democratic nations of the world have shamefully turned a blind eye to mass killings and systematic repression at various points in recent history. One of the worst instances of past neglect occurred in the summer of 1988, when the Islamic Republic of Iran undertook a campaign of mass executions. An estimated 30,000 political prisoners were killed. Activists made every effort to bring the killings to the attention of Western policymakers and the global media, but few journalists or politicians took up the cause."