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United Nations Comedy: UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum - SteveG - 03-28-2024
The Obvious Best Choice to protect Woman's Rights
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
Saudi Arabia has been chosen as the chair of the UN commission that is supposed to promote gender equality and empower women around the world, after an unopposed bid for leadership condemned by human rights groups because of the kingdom’s “abysmal” record on women’s rights.
The Saudi ambassador to the UN, Abdulaziz Alwasil, was elected as chair of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), by “acclamation” on Wednesday, as there were no rival candidates and no dissent at the CSW’s annual meeting in New York.
Alwasil was endorsed by the group of Asia-Pacific states on the commission. When the outgoing chair, the Filipino envoy to the UN, Antonio Manuel Lagdameo, asked the 45 members if they had any objections there was silence in the chamber.
“I hear no objection. It is so decided,” Lagdameo said.
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.
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The Saudi mission to the UN did not respond to a request for comment, but Saudi officials have pointed to a “personal status” law established in 2022 as evidence of progress in women’s rights.
However, the law stipulates that a woman has to obtain a male guardian’s permission to marry. Under the law, a wife has to obey her husband in a “reasonable manner”, while her husband’s financial support is dependent on the wife’s “obedience”.
Refusal to have sex with her husband, live in the marital home or travel with him without a “legitimate excuse” can also justify the withdrawal of financial support under the law. Amnesty International said a leaked draft of a forthcoming new penal code “fails to protect women and girls from all forms of gender-based violence”.
“Saudi Arabia’s election as chair of the UN Commission on the Status of Women shows shocking disregard for women’s rights everywhere,” Louis Charbonneau, UN director at the Human Rights Watch (HRW), said.
Re: United Nations Comedy: UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum - mrbigstuff - 03-28-2024
Perhaps they were confused and that this was the way to get a discount on purchasing some women?
Re: United Nations Comedy: UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum - pdq - 03-28-2024
Yup, that’s pretty boneheaded.
Re: United Nations Comedy: UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum - DeusxMac - 03-28-2024
She couldn't see that happening.
Re: United Nations Comedy: UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum - RAMd®d - 03-28-2024
Yup, that’s pretty boneheaded.
I see what you did there.
a woman has to obtain a male guardian’s permission to marry
a wife has to obey her husband in a “reasonable manner”
her husband’s financial support is dependent on the wife’s “obedience”.
Refusal to have sex with her husband, live in the marital home or travel with him without a “legitimate excuse” can also justify the withdrawal of financial support under the law.
a forthcoming new penal code “fails to protect women and girls from all forms of gender-based violence”.
MAGAts must be like 'Wait... What?!'
Yes, Saudi, my first pick to lead a women's rights forum.
Saudi Arabia, where a woman can be jailed for wearing a flimsy burnoose.
At least they don't have honor killings.
They don't, right?
At least none of that could ever happen in the good ol' US of A.
Ok, it did, but we've moved forward, progressed, evolved.
I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote.
Ok, maybe not so much.
Re: United Nations Comedy: UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum - Ted King - 03-28-2024
I wonder if they put out money/"favors" to make this happen and if they did who got the goodies.
Re: United Nations Comedy: UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum - macphanatic - 03-31-2024
Just another reason for the US to pull out of the UN.
Re: United Nations Comedy: UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum - TheCaber - 03-31-2024
Pull out? Pull out? That doesn't sound manly to me...