How (the F**K) was Saudi Arabia Voted onto a UN Womens Panel?

[Rustyeye77]

On April 19, United Nations member states elected Saudi Arabia to serve on the UN Commission on the Status of Women, a body “dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.”

But how does this repressive government deal with Saudi women who strive to achieve the commission’s own stated goals?

Several days before the vote, Mariam al-Oteibi, 29, fled abusive family members in al-Qassim Province for Riyadh, only to be captured by authorities captured and jailed for having the temerity to dream of making her own life decisions. She currently sits in Buraida Prison back in al-Qassim.

Mariam chafed for years under the oppressive male guardianship system which forbids women from obtaining a passport, marrying, or traveling abroad without the approval of a male guardian, usually a husband, father, brother, or son. Authorities previously arrested Mariam briefly in November 2016, after she attempted to file an abuse claim against her brother, but her family pre-empted her and had her jailed on a counter “disobedience” complaint. Following a brief detention, authorities returned her to her family and the abuse continued.


https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/04/28/how-was-saudi-arabia-voted-un-womens-panel



I don't understand why there isn't outrage among progressives out there .

[nycbos]

1. The same way they have been on human rights panels.

The UN is a joke at times.

[Rustyeye77]

3. I dont think its PC

to say anything bad about the UN here.

[SpankMe]

2. Oppressive assholes. That's my name for Saudi Arabia. n/t

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. More or less the same way

it's panels made up entirely of men in this country who decide how much control women should have over their own bodies here.

The oppression of women is simply far more overt in Saudi Arabia than here.

[David__77]

5. Because the United Nations is essentially a collection of nationstates.

I don't know that it would be the case that a majority of the worlds governments water polo Saudi Arabia having a seat on that commission.

[Equinox Moon]

6. Very oppressive toward women. This is the 1st film made in Saudia Arabia...

The film maker is a woman.

They control their women to the extreme!!!

[frazzled]

7. It's like putting the bad boy in class in charge of the filmstrip projector

Remember when your 5th-grade teacher used to do that?

[eissa]

8. I'm a progressive and I'm outraged

I don't think it's fair to say there isn't outrage among us. I think most of us understand that the UN has become an irrelevant institution that couldn't organize a two-man parade if their life depended on it. Placing a sick country like SA on the human right's commission was a shock, but on the women's panel is just plain mockery. Fuck all of them.

[Rustyeye77]

9. " irrelevant institution" ?

"couldn't organize a two-man parade"?

"sick country"?

"just plain mockery"?


you got guts to say that but completely agree.

[leftynyc]

12. Very well said. (n/t)

[jalan48]

10. Oil.

[MichMan]

11. After Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize anything is possible. nm

[nycbos]

13. Thank you.

[rollin74]

14. the UN is a fucking joke

because of shit like this

[PotatoChip]

15. 'True rights' for women will be achieved only when privileged, wealthy white women

in America break the glass ceiling by becoming POTUS.

Or when more "leaning-in" female CEOs or CFOs (or whatever the F they call themselves) make their places on the high rungs.



The rest of us female peasants in the US (also worldwide) apparently do not matter.

[JoeStuckInOH]

16. Maybe it's a move to throw more responsibility on them...

By putting them on a women's panel, they might be scrutinized more carefully for instances involving womens rights. Sort of how when politicians who serve on committees have to make sure, if nothing else, their affairs are in order when it comes to that committee topic.

Or maybe that's just optimism.