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The UN's Broken Human Rights Machine
When a former Hamas hostage described waking up violated in Gaza, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women sat unmoved. This moment exposes a deeper pattern: the UN Human Rights Council consistently appoints special rapporteurs with pre-existing bias, especially on Israel-related mandates. We examine the opaque appointment process, the absence of conflict-of-interest screening, and how political incentives produce partisans instead of impartial monitors. The result poisons the entire human rights system — making credible findings dismissible and leaving victims without real…
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