America's first task at the UN Human Rights Council

We'll soon see if its promise of reform is just another vacuous pledge

Meeting room of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Palace of Nations, Geneva

The US has rejoined the UN Human Rights Council.

This is a dismaying development — although, as such, par for the course from the Biden administration. 

It’s dismaying because the HRC is a disgrace: a permanent and obscene blot on whatever remains of the UN’s ostensible aim …