Posted on 07/26/2019 5:33:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
Once again proving what a joke the United Nations is, the organization’s Economic and Social Council voted this week to condemn Israel as the only country in the world that violates women’s rights. Even more laughable is that among the 54 nations that sit on the council are Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, China, and Pakistan.
The United States and Canada voted against the resolution, “Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan," while nine countries abstained: Brazil, Cameroon, Germany, Jamaica, Mexico, Romania, Togo, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
The Jewish state was harshly and repeatedly condemned in a resolution ... for allegedly being the “major obstacle” for Palestinian women “with regard to their advancement, self-reliance, and integration in the development of their society.”
Out of 20 items on the UN Economic and Social Council’s 2018-2019 agenda, only one — Item No. 16 against Israel — focuses on condemning a specific country. All the other focus areas concern global topics such as disaster relief assistance and the use of science and technology for development.
The resolution completely ignores how Palestinian women’s rights are impacted by their own governing authorities—the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and Hamas in Gaza—nor does it mention how women are discriminated against within patriarchal Palestinian society.
Moreover, ECOSOC concluded its annual session by ignoring the world’s worst abusers of women’s rights, refusing to pass a single resolution on the situation of women in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, or DR Congo, all of which ranked in the top ten worst countries in last year’s Global Gender Gap Report, produced by the World Economic Forum. (UN Watch)
“The UN reached new heights of absurdity by singling out Israel alone on women’s rights, yet saying nothing on Iran holding women’s rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh behind bars, Saudi Arabia jailing and torturing women’s rights activists, and subjugating women under harsh male guardianship laws, or on Yemen denying women hospital treatment without the permission of a male relative,” said Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch.
“When you have Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen among the UN council members accusing Israel of violating women’s rights, you are in the theater of the absurd.”
Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., called the move "embarrassing."
"It amazes me how the U.N. condones votes like these," she tweeted. "It is a total mockery of human rights to allow Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, and Yemen to name Israel as the world’s only violator of women’s rights."
It amazes me how the U.N. condones votes like these. It is a total mockery of human rights to allow Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, and Yemen to name Israel as the world’s only violator of women’s rights. #Embarrassing https://t.co/VOr20Ma9Po— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) July 25, 2019
Would be funny if it were not so despicable. And to think, these guys get PAID to write this stuff, WE (for the most part) pay them.
I’m assuming all those middle eastern Islamic countries aren’t violating women’s rights because women have no rights there to begin with. LOL
“It amazes me how the U.N. condones votes like these. It is a total mockery of human rights to allow Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, and Yemen to name Israel as the world’s only violator of women’s rights. #Embarrassing https://t.co/VOr20Ma9Po—; Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) July 25, 2019”
I agree. All women who live in Gaza and the West Bank should be immediately rescued and taken to those countries condemning Israel for their abuse of women. It will definitely make it easier for Israel to get rid of the male terrorists.
One wonders why we’re even still a member.
What a joke the UN is.....and I cannot believe the countries that abstained.
How long before Rashida is railing about this?
This just proves the UN is a Islamic institution.
Get US out of the UN and the UN out of the US
DEFUND UNaccountable bureaucrats. DETACH from their orgs. DISMANTLE/DESTROY when necessary.
US out of the UN; UN out of the US.
This is more proof it is just a big anti-USA/Israel club to make despots rich.
USUNEXIT
OVER AND OVER AND OVER!
Get US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!
The old Cold War dinosaur, the UN, has got to go. It’s a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Are the UN people smokin crack?
I guess women love and freely accept getting their Klits cut off. Yes siree boss or is that mohamMAD:-)
I don’t suppose they bothered to specify just what women’s rights are being violated in the UNITED STATES!!
We even give the witches the chance to run for and take a seat in the U. S. Congress. That’s pretty bad, isn’t it?
Can Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan say the same?
If the UN ever becomes the World Government the world is finished
US out of the UN. UN out of the US.
Let's watch the Jihad Squad as they weigh in on this.
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