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On the recordJune 15, 2015
The ridiculous nonsense from the U.N. Human Rights Council, which consists of some of the worst offenders of human rights, really makes that Council, in my opinion, a joke and undermines the credibility of the U.N. itself.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel criticizes the U.N. Human Rights Council's credibility due to its members' human rights violations.

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