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Forums - Politics Discussion - Saudi Arabia was elected to the U.N. Women’s Right Commission, and 5 EU countries voted in favor

barneystinson69 on 25 April 2017

BOO!



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forest-spirit on 25 April 2017

Will be really interesting to hear the motivation for this decision. I can sorta understand how some would want to include Saudi Arabia as a means to open up for more discussion regarding women's rights in that nation. At the same time having a backwards nation such as Saudi Arabia be part of the Women's Right Commission makes my head spin. Does that mean they will have a say when it comes to discussing women's rights?



vivster on 26 April 2017

What's 5 countries of europe against a sure vote of the US^^



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Barozi on 26 April 2017

uhm there were only 13 candidates for 13 seats. Saudi Arabia HAD to be elected. It also got the lowest amount of votes. So if anything you should praise the ones who didn't vote for them, as Saudi Arabia would've made it anyway.

https://www.unwatch.org/no-joke-u-n-elects-saudi-arabia-womens-rights-commission/

As always, doing some research before posting helps a lot.



vivster on 26 April 2017

I still don't get the function of this. Who sits in that commission and what is their job. What harm would it do if Saudi Arabia was a part of it?

I thought it might be nice having them there to show them first hand what women's rights mean.



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Proxy-Pie on 26 April 2017

I hope people realize that even Muslims consider Saudi Arabia's treatment of women to be unjust.

It's quite sad, really. US aligned countries like Saudi are free from criticism and especially action, while others can get attacked for the silliest of things.



NobleTeam360 on 26 April 2017

*facepalm* U.N. is another useless organization.



ironmanDX on 26 April 2017
Barozi said:

uhm there were only 13 candidates for 13 seats. Saudi Arabia HAD to be elected. It also got the lowest amount of votes. So if anything you should praise the ones who didn't vote for them, as Saudi Arabia would've made it anyway.

https://www.unwatch.org/no-joke-u-n-elects-saudi-arabia-womens-rights-commission/

As always, doing some research before posting helps a lot.

How are the candidates chosen?

 



vivster on 26 April 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
vivster said:
I still don't get the function of this. Who sits in that commission and what is their job. What harm would it do if Saudi Arabia was a part of it?

I thought it might be nice having them there to show them first hand what women's rights mean.

As far as I'm aware their job is to send strongly worded statements or something to try and shame countries in to treating women differently.

Saudi Arabia being part of it probably just means they won't be on the receiving end of any of them. ie. it will probably make no difference whatsoever

That's what I thought too.

Then again we have the buzz words Saudi Arabia and women's rights so it's definitely newsworthy and definitely something evil.

Maybe OP wants to clarify this since he's so engaged in this topic.



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Barozi on 26 April 2017
ironmanDX said:
Barozi said:

uhm there were only 13 candidates for 13 seats. Saudi Arabia HAD to be elected. It also got the lowest amount of votes. So if anything you should praise the ones who didn't vote for them, as Saudi Arabia would've made it anyway.

https://www.unwatch.org/no-joke-u-n-elects-saudi-arabia-womens-rights-commission/

As always, doing some research before posting helps a lot.

How are the candidates chosen?

They aren't chosen, they apply for a seat and then get elected (or not elected) by the members of the Economic and Social Council.

"Forty-five Member States of the United Nations serve as members of the Commission at any one time. The Commission consists of one representative from each of the 45 Member States elected by the Economic and Social Council on the basis of equitable geographical distribution:  

13 members from Africa    
11 from Asia    
nine from Latin America and Caribbean    
eight from Western Europe and other States    
four from Eastern Europe 

Members are elected for a period of four years."

http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/member-states

"Results of the elections, with all 54 ECOSOC members voting:
African States: Algeria: 54 | Comoros: 53 | Congo: 53 |  Ghana: 53 |  Kenya: 53
Asian & Pacific States: Iraq: 54 |  Japan: 53 | Republic of Korea: 54 | Saudi Arabia: 47 | Turkmenistan: 53
Latin American States:  Ecuador: 54 | Haiti: 54 | Nicaragua: 52"

https://www.unwatch.org/no-joke-u-n-elects-saudi-arabia-womens-rights-commission/

5 from Africa, 5 from Asia/Pacific and 3 from form Latin America got elected, that means that the same amount of members from these regions dropped out.
So it's not like an European counry could've applied for the job instead, to take away Saudi Arabia's spot in the commission.