Autocracies are using their majority on the UN Human Rights Council to shield each other from oversight. China, for example, has tapped old allies and new economic partners to evade criticism for documented abuses.

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The European Central Bank is currently fighting rampant inflation in the eurozone which is just one of the many crises its policymakers have had to face in the past 25 years.