Inappropriate posting. “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.”
No Joke: U.N. Elects Saudi Arabia to Women's Rights Commission, For 2018-2022 Term - UN Watch
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Re: Inappropriate posting. Sorry Yabbo, you come closest to having similar values to what I believe in, but you are not thinking on this and just doing a knee jerk reaction, just like everyone else on this board seems to constantly do.
The UN is not a regulatory organ, and has no authority. It is an advisory group only. And the ONLY way to ever get anything to change or improve is to included the major players. Saudi Arabia likely is the single most influential country in the world when it comes to something like the rights of women, and to exclude them would ensure nothing at all got done. You will much more likely to get Saudi Arabia to change by including them, rather than excluding them.
But you also likely are misunderstanding the culture of Saudi Arabia. Women actually are the most powerful and in many ways have all the power. That is true for many reasons.
One is because only matriarchal lineage can be ensured. You can never really be sure who the father of a child might be, but only the mother is assured. So it is through women that all property is inherited. Another is that women do all the marriage arrangements, so everyone who wants a good marriage, has to keep on the good side of those who decide marriages.
If one was to be critical of Saudi culture towards women, it would actually only be that they are overly protective.
Re: Inappropriate posting. Saudi Arabia likely is the single most influential country in the world when it comes to something like the rights of women,
Gawd Rigby, what in the hell are you smoking, snorting, or mainlining? I haven't been on that much of a high since I was a 19 year old university freshman.
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Saudi Arabia likely is the single most influential country in the world when it comes to something like the rights of women,
Gawd Rigby, what in the hell are you smoking, snorting, or mainlining? I haven't been on that much of a high since I was a 19 year old university freshman.
There are over 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, and they mostly are Sunni so look to Saudi Arabia for guidance, especially when it comes to things like rights.
So there is no country in the world with more influence than Saudi Arabia.
There is no way to bypass Saudi Arabia.
If you want change, you have to start with Saudi Arabia.
If you want change, you have to start with Saudi Arabia.
The best method of doing that is let the Saudis set the rules?
That is the point.
The UN does not get to set rules.
This is just a committee to look into it.
For Saudi Arabia to be part of those looking into and investigating rights is a good thing.
They might learn something or at least consider something.
Re: Inappropriate posting. Well, let's first get the name right. It's the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women, not the "Women's Rights Commission".
Second, let's understand what it is:
CSW consists of one representative from each of the 45 Member States elected by ECOSOC on the basis of equitable geographical distribution: 13 members from Africa; 11 from Asia; 9 from Latin America and Caribbean; 8 from Western Europe and other States and 4 from Eastern Europe. Members are elected for four-year terms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Commission_on_the_Status_of_Women
So Saudi Arabia will be one of 45 nations represented.
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