UN Human Rights body gets Saudi Arabian envoy leadership in setback for proponents of good work | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Saudi Arabia’s envoy to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will head an influential panel on human rights, a watchdog group revealed Sunday – despite Riyadh’s own poor track record for human rights issues. Saudi envoy Faisal Trad will chair the 5-member Consultative Group, a UNHRC panel which chooses representatives to report and address human…