In what may have been the biggest trolling of the United Nations in recent history, Saudi Arabia was elected via secret ballot in the UN Economic and Social Council to the 45-member UN Commission on the Status of Women last week. According to Reuters, twelve other countries were also elected by the council in Geneva to serve for a four-year term, ending in 2022: Algeria, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Iraq, Japan, South Korea, Turkmenistan, Ecuador, Haiti and Nicaragua.
The news promptly sparked mocking and ridicule. UN Watch, a human rights organization monitoring the performance of the United Nations, strongly condemned the appointment of Saudi Arabia to post,citing Riyadh’s poor women’s rights record and widespread gender inequality.
“Electing Saudi Arabia to protect women’s rights is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief. It’s absurd,” Hillel Neuer, the UN Watch chief, said.
Every Saudi woman “must have a male guardian who makes all critical decisions on her behalf, controlling a woman’s life from her birth until death. Saudi Arabia also bans women from driving cars,” Neuer added.
Who voted for Saudi Arabia? At least 5 EU nations based on UN Watch math: "Neuer said that seven of the 54 council states did not vote for Saudi Arabia, and that, based on his count, five of the 12 EU states on the council voted in favor of Saudi Arabia. It received the least amount of votes out of all of the 13 newly approved members, he added."
At least 5 EU states voted FOR the Saudis.
Belgium?
Czech?
Estonia?
Finland?
France?
Germany?
Greece?
Ireland?
Italy?
Portugal?
Sweden?
UK? pic.twitter.com/e4FPK1PgMB— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 23, 2017
Twitter users were just as amazed at the news:
@HillelNeuer@UN_CSW@UNECOSOC I wish I could find the words to express how I feel right know. I'm 'saudi' and this feels like betrayal.
— kh.oz (@khuludAu) April 23, 2017
Absurd! UN couldn't have done bigger injustice to women's cause
UN Elects KSA to Women's Rights body https://t.co/Nk2ecKmxc0 via @unwatch— Baqir Sajjad (@baqirsajjad) April 23, 2017
Insane! Saudi Arabia is elected chieftain over women's rights by U.N? A country where women aren't allowed to drive? https://t.co/mZZHfQvXGa
— Luna Safwan (@LunaSafwan) April 23, 2017
Do I understand this correctly? Saudi Arabia is elected chieftain over women's rights by U.N? A country where women aren't allowed to drive?
— Yradur (@nacktepoesie) April 23, 2017
According to its website, the CSW with Saudi Arabia now its latest official member, is aimed at "promoting women’s rights, documenting the reality of women’s lives throughout the world, and shaping global standards on gender equality and the empowerment of women,"according to its website. Saudi Arabia’s bid to be elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women was made in September 2016. At the time, the country referred to its record on women’s rights protection, which goes “in accordance with Sharia, which guarantees fair gender equality.”
No joke: Saudi Arabia is running for the UN Human Rights Council—and their campaign brochure cites the Saudi record on. . . women's rights. pic.twitter.com/2xqO62V1GS
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) September 22, 2016
“Saudi discrimination against women is gross and systematic in law and in practice. Every Saudi woman must have a male guardian who makes all critical decisions on her behalf, controlling a woman’s life from her birth until death. Saudi Arabia bans women from driving cars,” Neuer raged. “Why did the UN choose the world’s leading promoter of gender inequality to sit on its gender equality commission?”
While the answer was unclear, it involves a dollar sign, lots of zeroes and even greater promises for future "investment" in said 5 EU countries.
No one knows more about woman's rights like the Saudis.
Scientists have just announced today that Dolphins are second to man in intelligence levels.
So that pushes women down to third place.
In related news, the foxes have just been appointed to the UN Henhouse Council.
The need for conducting a secret ballot says it all really doesn't it?
You can guarantee that the UK was one of the corrupt EU countries who voted in favor of the Saudis, prbably in exchange for new arms contracts? It was the UK that was instrumental in getting Saudi elected as Chair of the UN Human Rights Commission, another WTF moment in the annals of Diplomatic integrity...
I'll wait for Rosie O'Donnell and Beyonce to analyze this and tell me what's best before I comment.
But leftards keep telling me that it's about time that we start listening to "the world" when it comes to womens and peoples. This should be refreshing.
Maybe they'll even blame Hillary(!)'s loss on misogyny. UN Women's Rights Council report spearheaded by Saudi Arabia
The UN is a POS. And that's not news.
Get it the fuck out of the USA
What can you tell a woman with two black eyes?
Nothing. You've already told her twice.
Fuck the useless and absolutly corrupt UN.
Put cameras under the desks and you will see envelops with money changing hands...
You'll also see a whole lot of shit which cannot be unseen. I'll pass, thanks.
The UN is not corrupt. You have representives from governments elected by their people. Those governments are corrupt, what you see in the UN is the reflection of corrupt governments. To claim the UN is corrupt is to claim the UN representative ignore their own governments when they vote, no one is even trying to claim that.
The corruption does not occur at the UN the corruption occurs at home, leading corrupter, the US closly followed by Israel and Saudi Arabia, the axis of evil.
You forgot /sarc.
all serious zeros knew that, Miss Aquitane :) (sorry if mispelled)
but really, it's the logical progression from human rights boss, no?
hey, if you decide if you're going to marfa or not and take that RV, i'm hitching a ride from colorado...
just make sure you have room for the sound system - HH wants me to play some real BASS music for the zeros
right HH?
Thanks for acknowledging me as HRH of Aquitaine. I appreciate that. Funny that on Election Day, in France, the antifa crowd showed up at the Bastille. Right on cue.
About Marfa: It is very far from where I live. Furthermore, Justice Scalia was on a little adventure vacay outside of Marfa when he woke up dead. When you land in that part of the country you are far, far away from a lot of things. Like an autopsy, apparently.
I looked into an RV from my neck of the woods: very spendy. My plans are on hold.
But it has to be the Jews that own the US gov...... Nothing else is posisible! Everything the House of Saud wants, the us delivers. We are run by Jews ??????
Jooos.
Israel and Saud are allies, they just don't go screamin' it from the rooftops.
True dat.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=550_1421270303
Off with her head.
Putting Saudi Arabia on that panel just shows the total uselessness of the United Nations.
More proof that the UN is a joke and a waste of time.
Did anyone else read the BB articles about the Muslim Doctor in Michigan that was arrested for performing FGMs on kids? Sickening. I speculated that FGM was rampant in the UK and the US and was being performed illegally. I was right.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/13/feds-arrest-detroit-d...
Edit: oh and one of the doctors caught and arrested (after taking 12 fucking years to investigate) was a woman.
What kind of woman butchers other girls? Absolutely fucking revolting.
If you have not watched the movie, "Desert Rose," you should. The horror of FGM in living color.
Well, at least you don't have to wonder which way the U.S. voted. Will you continue to exclusively sell your oil for US dollars? Mystery solved. For the children, er women of course.
"Will you continue to exclusively sell your oil for US dollars?"
SA joined Brics.
https://geopolitics.co/2017/04/21/saudi-arabia-switching-to-brics-allian...
feminist, Hollywood and LGBT in the US and Western Europe hailed the decision as a win against the patriarchy
HOW DARE YOU BE OUTRAGED! YOU MUST BE RACISTS!
Getting sick of the West propping up this sick regime, but deposing everybody else.
The greatest cost of the petrodollar agreement is that the addiction to oil and dollar hegemony blows back with Wahhabi terrorism in everybody's face and what's worse is that Western governments are in denial about this, and actually enable it, while claiming to be "fighting" terrorism at the same time!
If the Dollar lost it World Reserve Currency status, the Fed would be less able to print unlimited amounts of fiat currency, and Congress would be forced to spend more judiciously. Social programs would be reigned in, and foreign interventions would have to be curtailed.
This would all require taxation to more closely match expenditures, increasing the amount of skin that everyone has in the game. The reason that the government gets away with what upsets so many ZHers is that the voters keep the incumbents in power.
If the voters had to pay for the consequences of their poor voting decisions, then they would have to get better informed and vote more intelligently. Losing that World Reserve Currency status would be a good first step.
Why don't Saudi women kill their men after they fall asleep?
Islam teaches that women actively work with Satan to take the man away from the 'prophet' teaching
Yip.
Islam has some truth to it.
"Overheard at the UN 6 months from now."
Ok, out of 324 recomendations from the Saudi delagation, 323 have all been the same. Do you think you could possibably come up with something different than:
"You must beat your women more often."
End the UN.
Some Professor in the US is running a class to teach people see things from the Saudi perspective, because it is racist and bigotry to criticise Saudi laws and culture. The Snowflakes want others to understand why Saudis are allowed to teach their wives by beating them. However Coulter is evil and not allowed to give a talk.
My money is on Ann Coulter giving that talk.
American women love rich Arabs so what's the conflict?
Utter. Nonsense.
Their should be a 'kill your man' day in Saudi Arabia. Where Saudi women on one particular night, all murder the men in their household.
Thus ridding the world of 50% of its human rights violation.
Just read it www.splittingpennies.com
" Every Saudi woman must have a male guardian who makes all critical decisions on her behalf, controlling a woman’s life from her birth until death."
I'm not seeing the problem here.
Hah ha ha ha ha !!!! God, that was good. Can you do that again? So clevah....
Yea I can, but FUCK YOU!
But we love Kikes that can create it out of "THIN AIR" and use it do just about ANYTHING THEY WANT or NEED U.S. TO DO FOR THEM!!!
BECAUSE THEY CAN!... AND BECAUSE WE'RE FUCKING STUPID "WHORES"!!!
you're on a roll - how about a promotion - Colonel Nemo, son of Captain Nemo ?
or should go straight to General and start to git shit done?
Fuck women
Fuck men....mmmm, tasty.
That's what I do, when they'll have me.
I'm not surprised at all.
- This is the same UN that appointed Robert Mugabe as International Envoy for Tourism.
- Elected the Islamic Republic of Iran to several United Nations human rights committees, including receiving a four-year term on the Commission on the Status of Women
- Chose Saudi Arabia to head key UN human rights panel
- more
That's like putting Israel on the Palestinean Rights Council if there was one.
who says money can't buy you friends?
Sweden abides.