Restore credibility to United Nations panel

OUR OPINION: BAR SERIAL ABUSERS FROM HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Miami Herald

It seems a certainty that the discredited U.N. Human Rights Commission will be reformed, and the sooner the better. The goal should be to create an international protector and promoter of human rights, one that punishes violators and takes action before it's too late to stop genocide and crimes against humanity. Doing this, however, means departing from business-as-usual: The new panel must be insulated from politics and focused on objective standards of human rights.

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In no way should the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members be assured permanent seats on the new human-rights council, as U.S. Ambassador John R. Bolton is arguing. Such a policy would promise seats to two nations with terrible human-rights records -- China and Russia. Their presence would damage the new council's credibility and defeat the purpose of the reforms in the first place.

Instead, the United States should advocate for a smaller, stronger and nimble human-rights protector that will intervene to prevent human-rights crises. Read it all here.