Supporting the UN human rights council ? Really ? Have you ever looked at who you're supporting just to get your way ? I mean, I'm all for holding those responsible to account, but, firstly, nothing will change unless the US itself holds those people to account. Second the UN are firmly on the side of human rights violators that make Hitler look like a beginner, and the UN itself also feels the need to commit massacres and mass-rapes on a regular basis. No one has even been held to account, not even in Northern Europe.

I mean, I understand the concept of realpolitik, but this is driving things very, very far.

Furthermore, there is no such thing as international jurisdiction, despite what the UN would want you to believe. It is about as legal as the US' execution of Bin Laden. If countries were to start persecuting each other's armies it would quickly end very badly, obviously. Hell, the half of the Saudi royal family would probably be sentenced to death in the US in the first month (because half of them have tortured and killed servants [8] [9] [10]). Do you think it'd be smart to do that ?. Also note that this is normal practice in Saudi Arabia [11].

Personally I find the UN's distasteful double standard an atrocious joke. Since 1994, the majority of UN member countries have constitutions in direct contradiction with human rights, the biggest one being China (well, in terms of power and population), and the biggest block being islamic nations, that disallow freedom of religion and equality of sexes (and usually equality of ethnicities as well, ie. direct legal racism, like it exists in the majority of islamic nations, as well as in China and other nations).

And that's ignoring the many, many, many human rights violations perpetrated by the UN itself [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

As you can see on the Human Rights Council' wikipedia pages [6], the biggest human rights issues are :

1) Israel. Since 2006, EVERY meeting of the human rights council has over half of the time dedicated to Israel's human rights abuses. The person currently in charge of setting the agenda for this part of the meeting felt the need to publish this picture : http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/AS-Cartoo... (note the kippah on the dog)

"There has never been a single resolution about the decades-long repression of the civil and political rights of 1.3 billion people in China, or the more than a million female migrant workers in Saudi Arabia being kept as virtual slaves, or the virulent racism which has brought 600,000 people to the brink of starvation in Zimbabwe. Every year, UN bodies are required to produce at least 25 reports on alleged human rights violations by Israel, but not one on an Iranian criminal justice system which mandates punishments like crucifixion, stoning, and cross-amputation. This is not legitimate critique of states with equal or worse human rights records. It is demonization of the Jewish state." [7]

2) Defamation of religion (dozens of resolution calling for world-wide introduction of blasphemy laws)

And internal politics concerning who gets a seat (and over a million bucks per year, free travel, a staff, ...)

These are the guys you're asking for help. These guys should be taken out, dragged before a court, sentenced to death, and executed for their OWN crimes long before they pass judgement on anyone else.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_by_UN_peacek...

[2] http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/04/un-3600-raped-d...

[3] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1538476/UN-staff-a...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre#Expulsion_o...

[5] http://www.projectcensored.org/12-another-massacre-in-haiti-...

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Cou...

[7] Bayefsky, Anne. "Perspectives on Anti-Semitism Today". Lecture at conference "Confronting Anti-Semitism: Education for Tolerance and Understanding", United Nations Department of Information, New York, June 21, 2004.

[8] http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2013/06/02/saudi-prin...

[9] http://www.smh.com.au/world/saudi-royal-beat-strangled-serva...

[10] http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/saudi-prince-jailed-in-br...

[11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMcnL1OfR0