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Related: About this forumOutrage 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
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(115,646 posts)Zilli
(286 posts)CrispyQ
(38,358 posts)RandySF
(70,748 posts)No wonder the UN was so slow to acknowledge the Hamas rape accusations.
tornado34jh
(1,301 posts)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.
PurgedVoter
(2,400 posts)I still can't wrap my mind around this.
qwlauren35
(6,278 posts)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.