Once again, the United Nations has damaged its own purported values and reason to exist when it praised Libya's human rights record last Tuesday while condemning America's.

"Ideas must be free to be expressed, contested, and critiqued"

"Roy Brown, Main Representative of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), spoke to the UN Human Rights Council yesterday, protesting against slavery in states like Mauretania, and laws against "apostasy" in states like the Maldives.

" Iran's foreign ministry has rejected Western nations' criticism of its human rights record, calling it unrealistic and politically motivated.

"Muslim states said on Wednesday that what they call "islamophobia" is sweeping the West and its media and demanded that the United Nations take tougher action against it.