Posted on 02/01/2008 3:41:28 PM PST by george76
A United Nations human rights body called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to immediately end its system of male guardianship which it said severely limits the basic freedoms of women in the kingdom.
The U.N. Committee ... said Islamic Sharia law should not trump an international women's rights treaty that Riyadh signed in 2000.
The rules restrict women's legal rights in marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance, property ownership and decision-making in the family, as well as choice of residency, education and jobs...
It "contributes to the prevalence of a patriarchal ideology with stereotypes and the persistence of deep-rooted cultural norms, customs and traditions that discriminate against women," ...
A de facto ban on Saudi women driving further reinforces such stereotypes...
A Saudi delegation led by Zeid Bin Abdul Mushin Al Hussein...: "Human rights in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia are based on Sharia law."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Someone must have falsely told the UN that there were Jews in Saudi Arabia. Why else would they issue something critical?
I’m sure the Saudis will get right on this. /s
To quote the great Spongebob Squarepants, “Well, good luck with that.”
Hillary brags how she went to China in 1995 and spoke out how women’s rights were human rights and human rights were women’s rights. Let her go to Saudi and lecture the royal family about women’s lib. See how far she gets. After all she has 35 years of experience in working hard for change.
Some candidates think you get change by hoping for it. Some think you get change by demanding it. Hillary thinks you get it by working hard for change.
The U.N. can go straight to hell as far as I am concerned.
It has no authority to make ‘requests’ of anyone.
Even if those requests are something that should be addressed, an illigitimate power hunger organization filled with among other things, criminals and rapists, has no business even existing.
(not withstanding our own Congress and the Clinton White House)
To fundamental religious people, man's law will never supersede God's law. - Tom
Maybe the UN should relocate there to make sure that happens.
Oh, sure... They’re going to dump Wahabbism for what the UN says.
Never happen. Shrillery will always find some way to avoid anything that calls for taking a stand or making a hard decision. That was the hallmark of her “husband’s” presidency. He avoided anything controversial (at least as much as he could). She won’t get pinned down on anything like that. Instead she would launch into a diatribe about how she has always been for women’s rights, has worked her whole life for women’s rights, blah-blah-blahdidy-blah. And in the end, nothing will happen. That, and there is no $$monetary$$ value to her in doing something like that.
...I’m sure Saudi Arabia will get right on that...
Equal rights for women were our undoing.
I guess misery enjoys company.
If the Saudi males give up dominance they will have to sleep with each other! On second thought, what’s different about that?
btt
I’m sure the Saudis are dead scared of the UN and will bow to their wishes /s
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