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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mary Ann on May 02, 2017, 09:57:53 AM
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029005181
Rustyeye77 (786 posts)
How (the F**K) was Saudi Arabia Voted onto a UN Womens Panel?
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 (823 posts)
1. The same way they have been on human rights panels.
The UN is a joke at times.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Rustyeye77 (786 posts)
3. I dont think its PC
to say anything bad about the UN here.
One low-post DUmmy warns another.
Quick answer, Rustyeye77: Sometimes your double standards on "tolerance" and "diversity" come back to bite you in the ass.
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Mariam obviously didn't ask a male family member for permission to run away. A mistake on her part
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Rustyeye77 (786 posts)
How (the F**K) was Saudi Arabia Voted onto a UN Womens Panel?
Low-post-count noob must've woken up from his/her decades-long :stoner: -coma. Or have the Paid Prog Shills been given the green-light to dump on the Saudis, now that they are working with Trump rather than Obama?
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1. The same way they have been on human rights panels.
The UN is a joke at ALL times.
Accuracy improvement.
Some group in the UN has claimed repealing OhBummerCare would violate "international law", so DU's UN-Worshipers aren't likely to say much that is critical of the UN.
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Accuracy improvement.
Some group in the UN has claimed repealing OhBummerCare would violate "international law", so DU's UN-Worshipers aren't likely to say much that is critical of the UN.
But of course. :thumbs: :hi5:
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A critical - even fatal - flaw in the 1920s-1930s League of Nations is that it had no way of dealing with a member nation going hideously rogue, ala Musso or Hitler. The UN duplicated that flaw.
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Accuracy improvement.
Some group in the UN has claimed repealing OhBummerCare would violate "international law", so DU's UN-Worshipers aren't likely to say much that is critical of the UN.
Yep regarding the UN and the muzzies.
As for the dummies being critical of the UN? Not gonna happen cause the GOP wants them gone. Now if the GOP praised the UN the dummies would want the UN gone. :tongue:
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Just 16 replies, but you may be surprised by them.
Response to Rustyeye77 (Original post)
Tue May 2, 2017, 03:27 PM
rollin74 (1,394 posts)
14. the UN is a ****ing joke
because of shit like this
But just 16.
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Tue May 2, 2017, 03:27 PM
rollin74 (1,394 posts)
14. the UN is a ****ing joke
because of shit like this
:thatsright: :thatsright: (S)He thinks this is a big deal? :thatsright: :thatsright:
(S)He needs to talk to young West African men and women about their "experiences" with UN "Blue Helmets".
(S)He needs to talk to Tutsi adults in Rwanda about the "courage" of UN "Blue Helmets".
(S)He needs to talk to Bangladeshis about the wells dug all across the nation by UNICEF. And about where all the $$ has gone since the UN stopped denying there was an arsenic problem and started throwing $$ at it.