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Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum
(www.amnesty.org)
What's next? North Korea as chair of the human rights forum?
Israel for world peace!
America for workers rights!
Turkmenistan for world trade!
Russia for LGBT+ rights
Marocco for the Decolonization Committee! Luxemburg for the United Nations Population Fund!
Reality really is beyond satire.
~~Satire~~ Sartre : Hell is other people...
Man, the world’s gonna be a MUCH better place when the House of Saud finally goes the way of the dinosaur.
Unless it's just replaced with something objectively worse...which wouldn't be the first time in history something like that happened.
They already massacred Yemen as a monarchy while their crown prince is known for dismembering journalists, they're about as bad as it gets.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I can imagine many, many ways it could get worse and only a few of them involve nuclear or bio weapons.
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Fair enough. If you want to solve the problem of gender equality, give it to the experts.
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The UN is a captured organization. It no longer serves its purpose, and is now an arm of the oil producing countries state departments more than anything. I don't have a good suggestion for what to replace it with but it's sure AF not worthy of being respected any longer.
The UN's purpose is
"To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;"- United Nations Charter, Chapter I: Article 1: Section 1
the other sections reference international friendship and equal rights, but section 1 is the meat f why it exists, the UN was created after two World Wars, it's primary goal is to prevent a third and has so far been overwhelmingly successful.
I don't think peace through submission was the original goal here though is the point
Kinda was. That's why the UK and France have a permanent seat on the UNSC but Germany and Japan categorically do not.
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I'd rather the assholes of the world think they're accomplishing something by writing bullshit resolutions rather than dropping bombs.
We just have to not take the UN seriously while still having the authoritarian assholes think the UN is serious business.
The Security Council is the only thing that ever really mattered anyway. Having the nuclear powers have to sit in a room together is important. The General Assembly has always been a clown show.
We have a bunch of alliances between democracies (NATO and other alliances) and the security council because we have to negotiate with the authoritarians with nukes. The minor despots can have the UN General Assembly to clown around in. Better to have petty narcissistic dictators throw their tantrums in the UN GA rather than expressing their feelings with their military.
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Amnesty is not a news source. They are fundraising, here. The article is devoid of necessary contextual information.
UN Commission executive boards are elected not appointed positions. In some UN bodies, chairs rotate in alphabetical order, but not this one. Maybe there was a midterm vacancy and the seat was filled by an appointment process? What is that process? When is the earliest the seat could be recalled?
I can't find anything about their process.
There's really not much about it, the UN page is here: https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/gender-equality
Mostly they seem to have conferences every decade or so and occasionally declare a "International day for X". Seems like a PR kind of thing to me.
But at any rate it's a bad look for the UN. Indicates a dysfunction in the organization that whatever process they have allowed this to happen. I mean it looks like it's a PR campaign that actually makes them look bad. If Guterres was competent he'd shut the thing down entirely and start another one that didn't suck. But since he's an idiot and he will probably just say it's somehow Israel's fault.
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Amnesty is not a news source.
It is providing news.
They are fundraising, here.
Their website has a donate button. This article doesn't ask for donations, although it does advertise another Amnesty report.
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The UN: how can we be more of a joke to the world??
Oh oh, let's appoint an atheist to the board of Islamic affairs!
Even then, I think an average atheist politician would handle Islamic affairs more fairly than an average Muslim politician would handle gender equality affairs, at least in most cases.
There is no atheist book that the atheist has to follow. The Quran, on the other hand, has misogyny kind of built into it, sadly.
Edit: I feel like I should add that this misogyny problem isn't unique to Islam. The Abrahamic religions all have outdated takes on gender equality. I would have the same negative feelings about a devout Christian politician being put in charge of gender equality.
Hahahaha.
Klown world.
Well, if you want to know how gender inequality works, just ask the Saudis.
I guess the "freedom of the press" forum leadership spot was already taken?
Weren't they head of the human rights council?
The world is not even trying anymore
It's getting harder and harder to make satire because it keeps becoming reality.
Jfc
After COP 28 this totally makes sense.
Well we know his wife won't be driving him to the meetings
UN trolling hard these days. Damn
People from Saudi Arabia have been on the UN human rights panel for awhile
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