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Human rights groups and the United States said the United Nations Human Rights Council elections will be held at a table where they should be called, as well as the Philippines and Eritrea won an uncontested election.
Eighteen countries, ranging from India to the Bahamas to Denmark, were chosen in a General Assembly vote.
With no competition, each candidate has had a significant number of votes, including the Philippines, and the majority of the time, and Eritrea, which has been criticized by the Commission.
"Amidst states with records of gross human rights and abuse is a tremendous setback," said Amnesty International's US advocate director, Daniel Balson. "It puts them on the world stage, and moreover, it empowers them to fundamentally undermine notions of human rights that are accepted internationally."
US Ambassador Nikki Haley said the "lack of standards continues to undermine the organization and demonstrates why the United States was right to withdraw from it" in June.
The UN missions for Eritrea and the Philippines did not immediately respond to the criticism. Eritrea's mission tweeted that the Horn of Africa nation "will work for enhanced dialogue and (an) effective" Human Rights Council.
A officials, meanwhile, declined to opine on the vote, but suggested that they should be open to scrutiny of their own handling of human rights.
"It is clear that the world expects the members of the international community to abide by a certain set of standards of behavior," said Monica Grayley, spokesperson for General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces.
The 47-member Human Rights Council can spotlight abuses and has some special monitors watching certain countries and issues. It also has a member country.
Created in 2006 to replace a commission discredited because of some members' sorry rights records, the new council soon came to face similar criticism. The US is doing so for the sake of hypocrisy about human rights, but also because Washington says the council is anti-Israel.
The Philippines will be joined by President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. rights groups say the toll is much higher. Over 155,000 other people have been arrested in the two-year-old campaign, which has alarmed Western governments, UN groups and rights organizations.
Duterte has denied condoning unlawful drug killings in the drug war, though he has gone down to death.
Eritrea has not held a presidential election since independence in 1993, and rights groups have long accused the country of having a harsh system of military immigration. Has a commission of inquiry in recent years of widespread human rights abuses, including forced labor. The government said the allegations were unfounded and one-sided.
Eritrea recently reached a peace agreement with the United States of America.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other rights groups Friday, including Bahrain and Cameroon.
Bahrain has been cracking down on dissent. In Cameroon, rights activists say civilians have been subjected to abuses amid fighting separatists and government security forces, and it is thought that the president of the country was unable to vote.
Bahrain's and Cameroon's U.N. missions did not immediately respond to inquiries Friday.
The new members of the Geneva-based council include Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Czech Republic, Fiji, Italy, Somalia, Togo and Uruguay.
