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, womens public participation and womens 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 womens and girls autonomy and engagement in the public sphere.
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LOL
Withdraw - and send them packing to some third world hellhole...
“What’s so funny bout peace love and understanding?”
U.N.involved with reality.
U.N.involved with sensibility.
U.N.involved with sanity.
U.N.involved with reality.
U.N.involved with sensibility.
U.N.involved with sanity.
The U.N.
Involved in social engineering
Involved in self-serving
Involved in sex slaves
Involved in the Power structure.
Involved in promoting communism
Involved in advancing indifference
Involved in advancing moral and cultural relativism.
Involved in Agenda 21.
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ISIS is extremist and conservative. In fact, they’re so conservative they want to return to the 7th century!
Obviously, what they want to conserve is very different from what American conservatives want to conserve.
Here’s the problem: Leftists around the world want much the same things. Conservatives around the world vary wildly by culture and society, with their only real commonality being opposition to Leftists.
In fact, it’s not unreasonable, IMO, to refer to the opponents of Gorbachev or Teng Tsaoping as conservatives. They wanted to conserve their traditional way of life based on communism. Commies can be conservative, too.
We will have front row seats to the biggest resorting in over 2,000 years.
Lucky us.
If we live.
But hey, nobody lives forever...
Is anybody paying attention to the United Nations as a real entity any more?
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