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TexasTowelie

(117,050 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 11:11 PM Mar 2024

Outrage as UN picks Saudi Arabia to head women's rights commission - DW News



Saudi Arabia will now be responsible for promoting gender equality worldwide. The kingdom has been chosen as the next chair of the UN's top forum for women's rights, despite its questionable record at home.

The kingdom's ambassador to the UN, Abdulaziz Alwasil, will lead the Commission on the Status of Women. Saudi Arabia's unopposed bid has been heavily criticized by human rights groups. The Saudi government has repeatedly jailed women's rights activists.

Chapters:
0:00 The controversial appointment
0:43 Louis Charbonneau, Human Rights Watch
4:57 Bissan Fakih, Amnesty International
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Outrage as UN picks Saudi Arabia to head women's rights commission - DW News (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2024 OP
WTF? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2024 #1
Is this the UN's way of illustrating their contempt for women? Zilli Mar 2024 #2
WTF??? CrispyQ Mar 2024 #3
OMFG RandySF Mar 2024 #4
The UN is useless. It's in bed with dictators. tornado34jh Mar 2024 #5
Wow, how was it an unopposed bid? PurgedVoter Mar 2024 #6
Yes, that is what hurts my heart. qwlauren35 Mar 2024 #7
I'm sure there were plenty of behind-the-scenes hints and threats that we won't be hearing about. TheRickles Mar 2024 #8

tornado34jh

(1,301 posts)
5. The UN is useless. It's in bed with dictators.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 11:37 PM
Mar 2024

It doesn't have the guts to throw Russia out of the Security Council, so why should we expect anything else? Sometimes I wonder why we even have it. At the beginning of the War in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy even said they if the UN can't do anything to stop Russian aggression, they should dissolve. Really at this point, what is it good for? What has it done to improve things in the world? It just looks like a toothless organization.

qwlauren35

(6,278 posts)
7. Yes, that is what hurts my heart.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 08:23 AM
Mar 2024

No European country bid, the US did not bid, Canada did not bid. All of the countries that have made advances in women's rights did not bid. That makes NO SENSE.

That is worse than Saudi Arabia getting the position.

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