Outrage as UN picks Saudi Arabia to head women's rights commission - DW News

[TexasTowelie]

Saudi Arabia will now be responsible for promoting gender equality worldwide. The kingdom has been chosen as the next chair of the UN's top forum for women's rights, despite its questionable record at home.

The kingdom's ambassador to the UN, Abdulaziz Alwasil, will lead the Commission on the Status of Women. Saudi Arabia's unopposed bid has been heavily criticized by human rights groups. The Saudi government has repeatedly jailed women's rights activists.

Chapters:
0:00 The controversial appointment
0:43 Louis Charbonneau, Human Rights Watch
4:57 Bissan Fakih, Amnesty International

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. WTF?

[Zilli]

2. Is this the UN's way of illustrating their contempt for women?

[CrispyQ]

3. WTF???

[RandySF]

4. OMFG

No wonder the UN was so slow to acknowledge the Hamas rape accusations.

[tornado34jh]

5. The UN is useless. It's in bed with dictators.

It doesn't have the guts to throw Russia out of the Security Council, so why should we expect anything else? Sometimes I wonder why we even have it. At the beginning of the War in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy even said they if the UN can't do anything to stop Russian aggression, they should dissolve. Really at this point, what is it good for? What has it done to improve things in the world? It just looks like a toothless organization.

[PurgedVoter]

6. Wow, how was it an unopposed bid?

I still can't wrap my mind around this.

[qwlauren35]

7. Yes, that is what hurts my heart.

No European country bid, the US did not bid, Canada did not bid. All of the countries that have made advances in women's rights did not bid. That makes NO SENSE.

That is worse than Saudi Arabia getting the position.

[TheRickles]

8. I'm sure there were plenty of behind-the-scenes hints and threats that we won't be hearing about.