Ahead of the expected announcement that Saudi Arabia will be appointed chair of the UN women’s rights forum at the annual meeting of the UN Commission of the Status of Women today, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Advocacy, Sherine Tadros, said:
“The Commission on the Status of Women has a clear mandate to promote women’s rights and gender equality and it is vital for the chair of the commission to uphold this. Saudi Arabia’s abysmal record when it comes to protecting and promoting the rights of women puts a spotlight on the vast gulf between the lived reality for women and girls in Saudi Arabia, and the aspirations of the Commission.
I wouldn’t want to work at a satire newspaper nowadays.
the onion just predicts the future at this point
Such a newspaper isn’t needed anymore.
Next week, adolf hitler is appointed chair of the Shoah Foundation.
Haha, the UN is such a joke.
They must do this stuff on purpose for the lols, no way a legitimate group that means well would actually put Saudi Arabia in charge of gender equality.
It runs democratically. That means it is possible to subvert it with calculated strategic maneuvering.
The only alternative would be if it were some authoritarian global government, which is what most of us don’t actually want, incidentally.
I never understand how people think any form of government or institution is supposed to work properly, unless people fight for it to do so. All things are potentially corruptible if we let it happen. All systems eventually, at some point, end up hinging on the honor system. And the simpler the system is, the easier it is to corrupt. If it was an absolutist monarchy, all you’d need to corrupt would be the king. Just one person. Very simple.
This sounds like an onion article headline.
Y’all calm the fuck down. This is the UN pointing the finger, and not subtly at all. This puts the spotlight on the Kingdom and I’m laughing thinking about how they’ll weasel around.
Do you want all these European tourist dollars? Maybe ease up on the ladies huh?
We can hope at least
Uhh…
We ARE living in a mirror universe.
There are a lot of Muslim countries in the UN and they buy and sell votes all the time.
As does every other nation in the UN.
So, why exactly?
The UN cannot be THAT dumb, they must understand how this looks and will work… Are they hoping thst, lastinute, SA will get their shit together and decides to treat women like human beings? Doubtful, this is not a Hollywood movie.
These things are voted on by the member countries. How many of them have regressive theocratic governments?
Indeed. How well do you think this will go?
And again, how do you think it looks? The optics are just sad.
Clearly it’s a shitty move that will harm vulnerable people.
Of course it looks bad, and I’m not trying to excuse it.
Just explaining that it wasn’t some burocratic decision by a cabal of scheming administrators to fuck people over.
This is the actions of specific (mostly threocratic) countries.
The individual countries voting here you mean.
