Mauritania in north-west Africa isn’t really a beacon of human rights. Of the 4.5m population, 500,000 are slaves. Regardless, the UN General Assembly last week installed the military-run Mauritania onto the Human Rights Council (HRC) with 172 votes out of 193 in the secret ballot. Other human-rights exemplars voted in were Sudan, Libya and Venezuela, which beat off democratic candidate Costa Rica 105-96.
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