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UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum despite ‘abysmal’ record

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IwantToRetire · 28/03/2024 16:41

Have only just seen this and there maybe better sources for the story but this is what the Guardian Blush is saying:

Normally a country holds the chair for two years, but the Philippines was put under pressure from other members of the Asia group to split its tenure and pass the post on to another country after one year. Bangladesh was expected to take over but late in the process, Saudi Arabia stepped in and lobbied for the chair, in what is widely seen as an attempt to burnish the kingdom’s image.

Human rights groups quickly pointed to the irony of the CSW being led by a country in which the gap between men’s and women’s rights, even on paper, is so wide.

Sherine Tadros, the head of the New York office of Amnesty International, pointed out that Saudi Arabia will be in the chair next year, on the 30th anniversary of the Beijing declaration, a landmark blueprint for advancing women’s rights globally.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/27/saudi-arabia-un-womens-rights-commission

On one level I am not that taken aback by it being Saudi Arabia (I wonder what their stance is on TW and self id?) but by whatever might have been the original good intentions of the UN, it is now undermined by political blocs voting to out smart another political bloc just to score points, and rarely about the issue itself. Angry

UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum despite ‘abysmal’ record

Kingdom chosen to chair Commission on Status of Women after unopposed bid, to dismay of human rights groups

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/27/saudi-arabia-un-womens-rights-commission

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afternoonoflife · 28/03/2024 18:26

I’m a bit disappointed as I’d lobbied for it to be in Afghanistan.

IwantToRetire · 28/03/2024 18:35

afternoonoflife · 28/03/2024 18:26

I’m a bit disappointed as I’d lobbied for it to be in Afghanistan.

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agent765 · 28/03/2024 18:39

Damn! I'd gone for Iran.

HeartofSaturdayNight · 28/03/2024 21:11

afternoonoflife · 28/03/2024 18:26

I’m a bit disappointed as I’d lobbied for it to be in Afghanistan.

Underappreciated post of the day... I'd cry but I'm laughing.

MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 28/03/2024 21:25

Apparently the Gilead rep turned up too late to be nominated.

songaboutjam · 28/03/2024 21:43

Will the mockery ever stop?

IsoldeWagner · 28/03/2024 21:45

No other group would be treated like this.

NitroNine · 28/03/2024 22:25

Franz Kafka would like it known that he’d appreciate it if his name could be left out of this one please, because even he’d not have gone this far/done this to Josephine K…

highame · 29/03/2024 08:49

The UN has gradually been taken over, except for the Security Council (and that can't be far off) by developing countries, the world majority, who are flexing their muscles. Not a bad thing in terms of equality but cultural differences are huge. How this will be resolved I don't know but it will be interesting to see how the radical left respond. I'm guessing the end result will not please them.

The Afghan lobby is growing by the minute

ArabellaScott · 29/03/2024 14:03

I, for one, welcome our new Saudi feminist overlords.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 29/03/2024 14:08

I think it already has been Iran hasn't it?

WickedSerious · 29/03/2024 15:07

Utter Nutjobs.

IdealHomeExhibition · 29/03/2024 23:11

I take it munroe will be going to any womens events the un holds there.

MrsTerryPratchett · 29/03/2024 23:15

ArabellaScott · 29/03/2024 14:03

I, for one, welcome our new Saudi feminist overlords.

LOL. Because otherwise you'd cry.

Is Uganda heading up the LGBT team? China the team looking at copyright? Russia peacekeeping?

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