United Nations elects Saudi Arabia for Women’s Rights committee

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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.”

“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 also bans women from driving cars.”

“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.

 

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7 Replies to “United Nations elects Saudi Arabia for Women’s Rights committee”

  1. Ha, ha! UN – what a joke they became. In 1940s they would probably have elected Germany to Jews’ Rights Commitee 😀

  2. Oh No really? I am desperately looking to see if it might be April 1st”? So there is little doubt no doubt that in no time at all women in Saudi Arabia will be allowed to drive?