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

[vivster]

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.