UN Commission on the Status of Women: The Vatican, Iran, Russia and Egypt oppose findings.

[HiPointDem]

31. The UN is not a neutral body of do-gooders. It's a body of power politicians.

The UN may not be a mere tool of U.S. imperialism, but it has only had significance in international conflict when used in this manner. (Hence George W. Bush's menacing statement that it will render itself “irrelevant” if it fails to play that role (during the Iraq/afghanistan war).)

The history also suggests that real power resides not in international institutions but in the most powerful nation-states, which dictate what countries are subject to international law and what countries are not.

To date, both multilateralism and unilateralism have been means to secure a world of fundamental global inequalities and to reinforce U.S. imperial power. No discussion on reforming the UN can be complete unless we ask ourselves why and how Washington is able to call the shots in the first place.

http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/648


Your equation of the UN commission on women with 'the global women's rights movement' is just counter-factual. The same politicians crying about women in the UN are the ones busily droning them, stealing their land, and impoverishing them through various means in real meat space.