Curing the Selectivity Syndrome examines the successes and failures of the Human Rights Council to date, and finds significant gaps in the performance of its mandate. Human Rights Watch calls on the Council to engage on all human rights situations that need its attention and to overcome selectivity in its work. The 2011 review of the Council is an opportunity to develop an array of approaches tailored to address human rights violations effectively wherever they occur. At the same time, the Council is urged to "improve by doing" by taking immediate steps to ratchet up the HRC's response to human rights violations, rather than waiting for the 2011 review to address the Council's shortcomings.