I created the graphic below as a quick reference that should rebut any idea that the U.N. Security Council can be expected to be a bulwark of freedom and democracy.

Feel free to link to this post, or to save and print out the graphic. But I would kindly request that you not appropriate the image for your own site.

Links to the raw material:

Freedom House Rating [PDF document]
Reporters Without Borders
Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom Ranking
Freedom House Religious Freedom Rating