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Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum

www.amnesty.org Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum amid ongoing assault on women’s rights

Ahead of the expected announcement that Saudi Arabia will be appointed chair of the UN women’s rights forum at the annual meeting of the UN Commission of the Status of Women today, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Advocacy, Sherine Tadros, said: “The Commission on the Status of Women has ...

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11mo ago

Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum amid ongoing assault on women’s rights

www.amnesty.org /en/latest/news/2024/03/saudi-arabia-to-be-appointed-chair-uns-gender-equality-forum-amid-ongoing-assault-on-womens-rights/

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Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum amid ongoing assault on women’s rights

www.amnesty.org /en/latest/news/2024/03/saudi-arabia-to-be-appointed-chair-uns-gender-equality-forum-amid-ongoing-assault-on-womens-rights/

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Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum amid ongoing assault on women’s rights

www.amnesty.org /en/latest/news/2024/03/saudi-arabia-to-be-appointed-chair-uns-gender-equality-forum-amid-ongoing-assault-on-womens-rights/

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What's next? North Korea as chair of the human rights forum?
- Israel for world peace!
  America for workers rights!
  Turkmenistan for world trade!
  
  Russia for LGBT+ rights
  
  Marocco for the Decolonization Committee! Luxemburg for the United Nations Population Fund!

Fucking stupid timeline we're trapped in
- "I'd rather be sliding"
  I made a nicer shirt than that a while ago, but it's what today's craptacular search gives up.

Reality really is beyond satire.
- ~~Satire~~ Sartre : Hell is other people...

Man, the world’s gonna be a MUCH better place when the House of Saud finally goes the way of the dinosaur.
- Unless it's just replaced with something objectively worse...which wouldn't be the first time in history something like that happened.
  
  They already massacred Yemen as a monarchy while their crown prince is known for dismembering journalists, they're about as bad as it gets.
  
  This oil fields aren’t moving. If the Saus family is ousted, we just talk to the new family
  What I would to see is a Saud realizing he’s on the outs, crying on the tarmac. But that’s just mean
- They already did, but some other Saudis realised those dinosaur bones had oil and they went full circle again.
- I believe one day in the future, maybe by aliens hands or maybe by some incredible new discovery, religion will cease to exist and the world will be finally peacefull with people working for the betterment of their lifes not praying for a ghost
  edit: a religion plague that kills only dumb people also works lol
  
  This will not happen, as long as other people find a way to use "religion" for power, influence or financial gain. Some people already thought that the mass adaption of the internet would be the end of religion, scams and other fraud preying on the gullible minds, because people could just read up what the catch is and not fall for it, right?
  Unfortunately the scams just adapted, made their own flashy homepages that mostly outranked critical information and people just choose to belive what they want to belive.
- I don't want to nitpick, because everyone gets what you're trying to say.
  But dinosaurs still exist today: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_birds
  
  I would also be fine with them evolving into something more relevant to the times

Fair enough. If you want to solve the problem of gender equality, give it to the experts.
- well, nobody ever complains (or they'll die)

Amnesty is not a news source. They are fundraising, here. The article is devoid of necessary contextual information.
UN Commission executive boards are elected not appointed positions. In some UN bodies, chairs rotate in alphabetical order, but not this one. Maybe there was a midterm vacancy and the seat was filled by an appointment process? What is that process? When is the earliest the seat could be recalled?
- I can't find anything about their process.
  There's really not much about it, the UN page is here: https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/gender-equality
  Mostly they seem to have conferences every decade or so and occasionally declare a "International day for X". Seems like a PR kind of thing to me.
  But at any rate it's a bad look for the UN. Indicates a dysfunction in the organization that whatever process they have allowed this to happen. I mean it looks like it's a PR campaign that actually makes them look bad. If Guterres was competent he'd shut the thing down entirely and start another one that didn't suck. But since he's an idiot and he will probably just say it's somehow Israel's fault.
  
  Page 22 re: election of officers.
  https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n97/775/21/pdf/n9777521.pdf
- Amnesty is not a news source.
  It is providing news.
  They are fundraising, here.
  Their website has a donate button. This article doesn't ask for donations, although it does advertise another Amnesty report.
  
  What? They literally aren't journalists and this literally isn't journalism. It's click bait to get people to click that donate button.

The UN is a captured organization. It no longer serves its purpose, and is now an arm of the oil producing countries state departments more than anything. I don't have a good suggestion for what to replace it with but it's sure AF not worthy of being respected any longer.
- The UN's purpose is
  "To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;"- United Nations Charter, Chapter I: Article 1: Section 1
  the other sections reference international friendship and equal rights, but section 1 is the meat f why it exists, the UN was created after two World Wars, it's primary goal is to prevent a third and has so far been overwhelmingly successful.
  
  I don't think peace through submission was the original goal here though is the point
  
  We've avoided world wars by allowing conflicts to fester around the globe. I'd be curious whether the death toll would be higher had there been a world war, but I guess there's still plenty of people left to die in forgotten places like Sudan so the calculation will have to wait.
- I'd rather the assholes of the world think they're accomplishing something by writing bullshit resolutions rather than dropping bombs.
  We just have to not take the UN seriously while still having the authoritarian assholes think the UN is serious business.
  The Security Council is the only thing that ever really mattered anyway. Having the nuclear powers have to sit in a room together is important. The General Assembly has always been a clown show.
  We have a bunch of alliances between democracies (NATO and other alliances) and the security council because we have to negotiate with the authoritarians with nukes. The minor despots can have the UN General Assembly to clown around in. Better to have petty narcissistic dictators throw their tantrums in the UN GA rather than expressing their feelings with their military.
- Did it ever serve it's purpose?
  
  I'm young and ignorant, so I don't know what I'm talking about and I'd be open to anyone posting any links for me to learn from. But I remember being in middle and high-school 20 years ago, and learning about the UN's "millennium goals" that they were trying to achieve by 2015. And they were... awesome. Like the real definition of awesome. They were awe-inspiring. And they made me hopeful as a young teen. And I remember when 2015 came and went and they hadn't even come close to meeting those goals. And I remember thinking, okay, well, they'll keep trying. But they didn't keep trying, and in fact I never heard anyone talk about the millennium goals ever again. And then 2016 came, and at least from my American-centric viewpoint, the world has been on a rapid decline since then. And I am honestly so hopeless, like rock bottom hopless, like, I don't know what the future is gonna be, but i can't imagine a good one if we stay on this path, and I don't know what to do, because I'm not a world leader.
  I used to have so much respect and admiration for the UN but they're just as garbage as every other power in the world. This post is a fucking joke. My ex partner is from Saudi. I remember excitedly asking him about his opinion and his families opinion when women were first given permission to drive and he was DISGUSTED. Said "this should have happened ages ago, Saudi is using this as a PR move, why should we be happy that women are just now getting this right?"
  Anyway. Sorry for the long response to your sarcastic comment. Have a good day. Xoxo.
  
  No third world war yet. So i assume yes.
  
  The whole point was a united nation front to avoid another Nazi war, but they gave the blue hats no teeth. It served purpose for purpose sake but no real action
  
  At one point I'm sure it was helpful to someone. Now it's just a weapon the oil producing countries plus China of the world wield against the rest.
- Any Expanse fans? We need James Holden to stick his dick in it.

The UN: how can we be more of a joke to the world??
- Oh oh, let's appoint an atheist to the board of Islamic affairs!
  
  Even then, I think an average atheist politician would handle Islamic affairs more fairly than an average Muslim politician would handle gender equality affairs, at least in most cases.
  There is no atheist book that the atheist has to follow. The Quran, on the other hand, has misogyny kind of built into it, sadly.
  Edit: I feel like I should add that this misogyny problem isn't unique to Islam. The Abrahamic religions all have outdated takes on gender equality. I would have the same negative feelings about a devout Christian politician being put in charge of gender equality.

Hahahaha.
Klown world.

Well, if you want to know how gender inequality works, just ask the Saudis.

I guess the "freedom of the press" forum leadership spot was already taken?
- Weren't they head of the human rights council?

The UN is a joke
- why am I not laughing???
  
  It's a bad joke.

The world is not even trying anymore

It's getting harder and harder to make satire because it keeps becoming reality.

Jfc
- Jesus Fried Chicken?
  
  Chick-fil-a is mediocre at best.
  Just saying.
  
  He fried for your sins!

After COP 28 this totally makes sense.

Well we know his wife won't be driving him to the meetings

UN trolling hard these days. Damn

Amnesty international took the side of Russia, not the best source.

This is how you know the UN is a complete fucking joke at this point that we still waste tax dollars on
- The purpose of the UN is so that nuclear powers have a forum to talk, instead of, you know, ending all human life on the planet.
  Everything else is just sort of stuff that came along once you had all the countries of the world sitting around realizing that they should do something once they're in the same room.
- The UN is working 100% as intended. You want world war 3 because you dislike what this article says? Absolutely delusional.
- Tax dollars
  Tell us more about your country's attitude towards abortion
  
  You mean Canada? We've had pro choice for years. Do not assume everyone is American
  Also this makes you and everyone else who does this look like an asshole so fuck off

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