Via the inestimable Hillel Neuer, I learned that the UN elected Yemen to the vice-presidency of the organization that promotes gender equity.

No joke: @UN_Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, just elected 🇾🇪 #Yemen — ranked as the worst country in the world on gender inequality (149th out of 149) — to be Vice-President of its Executive Board. pic.twitter.com/sW3x9KofSt — Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 9, 2019

You should read his whole tweet-storm. Yemen is not a woman-friendly place.

But this is yet another example of how the worst actors flock to the organizations charged with “fixing” various problems. Human-rights abusers race like moths to a flame to sit on human-rights bodies, precisely because that is the best way to protect themselves from international condemnation and, all too often, focus international fury on Israel. Also via Hillel:

Why dictators actually LOVE the UN Human Rights Council. UNHRC Condemnations, 2006-2016:

🇮🇱 Israel – 68

🇩🇿 Algeria – 0

🇨🇳 China – 0

🇮🇶 Iraq – 0

🇵🇰 Pakistan – 0

🇶🇦 Qatar – 0

🇷🇺 Russia – 0

🇸🇴 Somalia – 0

🇹🇷 Turkey – 0

🇻🇪 Venezuela – 0

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe – 0 — Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 12, 2018