1. Vanessa Craige and Mariana Jurado

2.  How does membership on the United Nation’s Human Rights Council affect the distribution of foreign aid?

3.  Countries that serve on the Human Rights Council are more likely to receive foreign aid Human Rights Council Logo

4. Membership on HRC Foreign Aid Received

5.  Voeten  Werker  Alessina and Dollar  OECD Data  Hug and Lukács

6.  Nigeria (1967)  Africa’s leading oil exporter  2 nd largest contributor of military troops for UN peacekeeping missions  Chairman of UN Special Committee against South African apartheid  Egypt (1967)  Strategic location (Suez Canal)  Leading non-OPEC member oil producer in Africa  South Africa (1997)  Largest economy (in terms of GDP) in Africa  Greatest energy consumption in Africa

7.  7400 observations, 573 variables  132 countries from 1950-2009 Independent Variable Dependent Variable Foreign Aid Received Membership on the Human Rights Council

9. No correlation!

10.  How do nations get onto the Council?