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Top violator of women's rights around the world? It's Israel says UN
FoxNews.com ^ | 3/20/2015 | Anne Bayefsky

Posted on 03/27/2015 10:34:59 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

Guess who is the number one violator of women’s rights in the world today? Israel. Violating the rights of Palestinian women.

At least that is the view of the UN’s top women’s rights body, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). CSW ends its annual meeting on Friday, March 20 by condemning only one of the 193 UN member states for violating women’s rights – Israel.

Not Syria. Where government forces routinely employ rape and other sexual violence and torture against women as a tactic of war. Where in 2014 the Assad regime starved, tortured and killed at least 24,000 civilians, and three million people – mostly women and children – are refugees.

In fact, not only is there no possibility that the UN Commission on the Status of Women will criticize Iran, Iran is an elected member of CSW. Sudan – whose president has been indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity – is currently a CSW Vice-Chair...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: israel; rights; un; unantiisrael; women; womensrights
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Wait now, I thought we here in Americe hold that title because some of us say abortion is wrong?


41 posted on 03/27/2015 12:00:35 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Don’t forget the simple act of treating their women as property.... Never mind...


42 posted on 03/27/2015 12:30:05 PM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

The UN is almost as antisemitic as our White House. They disgust me.


43 posted on 03/27/2015 2:05:33 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: jughandle

Good point! How many baby girls have been killed in the womb. Why aren’t the feminists and the United Nations going crazy with this?


44 posted on 03/27/2015 2:55:56 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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This is no surprise. In the Arab world, women have no rights.

45 posted on 03/27/2015 3:14:22 PM PDT by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

The UN is an assemblage of assorted tyrants, dictators, petty sheikdoms and gangsta states. The US should pull out and expelled them from American soil.


46 posted on 03/27/2015 4:04:43 PM PDT by ZULU (Je Suis Charlie. . GET IT OBAMA, OR DON'T YOU??)
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