No Joke: U.N. Elects Saudi Arabia to Women's Rights Commission

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No Joke: U.N. Elects Saudi Arabia to Women’s Rights Commission, For 2018-2022 Term
Saturday, April 22, 2017 11:01 pm

The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch condemned the U.N.’s election of Saudi Arabia, “the world’s most misogynistic regime,” to a 2018-2022 term on its Commission on the Status of Women, the U.N. agency “exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.”

“Electing Saudi Arabia to protect women’s rights is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. “It’s absurd — and morally reprehensible.”

“This is a black day for women’s rights, and for all human rights,” said Neuer. Interview: Why Saudis Joined Women’s Rights Body

“Saudi discrimination against women is gross and systematic in law and in practice. Every Saudi woman,” said Neuer, “must have a male guardian who makes all critical decisions on her behalf, controlling a woman’s life from her birth until death. Saudi Arabia bans women from driving cars. Why did the U.N. choose the world’s leading oppressor of women to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women?”

Saudi women feel betrayed by the UN. “I wish I could find the words to express how I feel right know. I’m ‘saudi’ and this feels like betrayal,” tweeted a self-described Saudi woman pursuing a doctorate in international human rights law in Australia.

“Today the UN sent a message that women’s rights can be sold out for petro-dollars and politics,” said Neuer, “and it let down millions of female victims worldwide who look to the world body for protection.”

Hillel Neuer ✔ @HillelNeuer
How does Saudi Arabia win seats on U.N. human rights bodies? Cash & secret deals—even with adversaries like Russia. https://www.unwatch.org/leaked-cable...r-unhrc-seats/ …
3:10 AM - 24 Apr 2017

The fundamentalist monarchy is now one of 45 countries that, according to the U.N., will play an instrumental role in “promoting women’s rights, documenting the reality of women’s lives throughout the world, and shaping global standards on gender equality and the empowerment of women.”

Saudi Arabia was elected by a secret ballot last week of the U.N.’s 54-nation Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Usually ECOSOC rubber-stamps nominations arranged behind closed doors by regional groups, however this time the U.S. forced an election, to China’s chagrin.

https://www.unwatch.org/no-joke-u-n-...ts-commission/

[Rumata]

United Nations - trolling women worldwide.

[Methmatician]

The UN is a joke. Their peacekeepers were recently found to have taken part in sex trafficking in Haiti. And in some African countries they help with the trafficking of child prostitutes.

[Tooting Carmen]

This is nothing new - the UN Human Rights Council has in the past elected Saudi Arabia and many other tyrannies to lead it, for example.

[Ryujin]

Fuck oil. I'd live in a log house in the middle of the forest honorably rather than cater to these sickfucks.

[N1019]

lol

The UN, US, global community generally only does anything about alleged human rights abuses if it suits their agenda, e.g. if the offending regime is non-compliant with globalist/imperial agenda. Otherwise, as in the case of KSA, they get away with it. In that sense, having KSA involved is a form of honesty.