From: PAlabama
Posted on 03/13/2015 10:09:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
(CNSNews.com) – Twenty years after a landmark U.N. conference on promoting gender equality, the head of the agency known as U.N. Women said Monday that a growing “conservative and extremist resistance” to equality between the sexes needs to be understood and confronted.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka called the problem “one of the new dangers” in the way of efforts to pursue the goal of global gender equality.
Neither she, nor a major report prepared for the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meeting she was addressing in New York, identified radical Islamic ideology as a leading factor, although surveys have found Muslim nations fare worst in gender equality rankings.
Mlambo-Ngcuka said the phenomenon was evident in ways like “ongoing attacks on girls’ education, women’s public participation and women’s control over their bodies.”
The report before the CSW meeting, submitted by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, also referred to the issue, but was equally vague about the types of countries and communities where it is most commonly seen.
“Extremism and conservatism are on the rise, manifested in diverse forms across different contexts,” it said, adding that examples include “tolerating or even promoting violence against women and limiting women’s and girls’ autonomy and engagement in the public sphere.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
UN is okay with Shariah law stating that women are property, female genital mutilation, and stoning women to death for pretty much anything.
Doesn’t even have to be “radical Islam”
How about mainstream Islam? See Saudia Arabia, e.g.
It’s time to withdraw from the U.N.
Well past time.
It’s time to lock and load!!!!
Someone needs to remake Red Dawn with the UN and Islamists in place of Russians and Cubans. ‘Cause thats where we’re headed.
My God! Will the next Republican POTUS please throw this organization out of the country and extricate us from their nonsense.
I am not a John Bercher, but they are right about getting out of the UN.
They just don’t want to demonize the true, gentle form of Islam that respects women and gives them more rights than patriarchal white males ever have nor those noble Muslims who can’t wait to serve as feminist foot soldiers in the struggle to overthrow Western Civilization, then afterwards become as meek as kittens and do the dishes and laundry for them. :)
Riiiiiiiight.
The UN is now being used by the left as a means of sidestepping the US Constitution.
Over 650 million women enslaved worldwide... BY ISLAM!
It all makes sense now.
Muslim men don’t open doors for their women.
Therefore, they are more respectful of women.
/s
Equality. There they go again, trying to bring the ladies down to our level!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.