It almost seems like someone in the UN is just trolling the world with this pick.<p>Saudi Arabia's atrocious record on women's rights, and KSA's institutionalized mistreatment of foreign workers (employers hold the passports of foreign workers and can deny them exit visas in any dispute) are just two of a huge number of other issues too voluminous to enumerate.<p>EDIT: Not to mention that in Saudi Arabia, conversion from Islam to any other religion is officially punishable by death.<p>EDIT2: Just this week, a juvenile human rights protester in KSA had his appeal denied, and will be executed by crucifixion: <a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/saudi-arabia-juvenile-prisoner-faces-death-by-crucifixion-after-appeal-is-dismissed/209642/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mintpressnews.com/saudi-arabia-juvenile-prisoner-...</a><p>It's difficult to conceive that a worse pick could possibly have been chosen. The inmates running the asylum...