United Nations Elects Saudi Arabia to Women’s Rights Commission

Saudi Arabia was recently elected to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, provoking backlash from human rights organizations.

The Gulf state became the 45th country to sit on the UN panel tasked with promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women across the globe. UN Watch, a nongovernmental watchdog that monitors the United Nations, called the election "absurd."

"Every Saudi woman must have a male guardian who makes all critical decisions on her behalf, controlling a woman’s life from her birth until death," Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, said in a statement released Saturday. "Saudi Arabia also bans women from driving cars."


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Perhaps the Sauds will learn something and take it home with them. That's part of the intent of UN panels.
It's a lot like putting the USA on a citizens' privacy panel.

 

Now Saudi can make demands of women's rights standards and what level of women's rights are acceptable standards.

Women should put on the burka and be ashamed of their gender.

 

The Muslim apologist strikes again.

A far more likely scenario is that SA will use their influence there to try to force More stringent rules on women in the name of cultural sensitivity.

 

That's very Kafkaesque.