Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum amid ongoing assault on women’s rights
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Ahead of the expected announcement that Saudi Arabia will be appointed chair of the UN women’s rights forum at the annual meeting of the UN Commission of the Status of Women today, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Advocacy, Sherine Tadros, said: “The Commission on the Status of Women has a clear mandate to promote women’s […]
    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      “I’d rather be sliding”

      I made a nicer shirt than that a while ago, but it’s what today’s craptacular search gives up.

    • NounsAndWords@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      9 months ago

      Unless it’s just replaced with something objectively worse…which wouldn’t be the first time in history something like that happened.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
        241·
        9 months ago

        They already massacred Yemen as a monarchy while their crown prince is known for dismembering journalists, they’re about as bad as it gets.

        • NounsAndWords@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          9 months ago

          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.

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        This oil fields aren’t moving. If the Saus family is ousted, we just talk to the new family

        What I would to see is a Saud realizing he’s on the outs, crying on the tarmac. But that’s just mean

    • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      They already did, but some other Saudis realised those dinosaur bones had oil and they went full circle again.

    • MissJinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      I believe one day in the future, maybe by aliens hands or maybe by some incredible new discovery, religion will cease to exist and the world will be finally peacefull with people working for the betterment of their lifes not praying for a ghost

      edit: a religion plague that kills only dumb people also works lol

      • AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        This will not happen, as long as other people find a way to use “religion” for power, influence or financial gain. Some people already thought that the mass adaption of the internet would be the end of religion, scams and other fraud preying on the gullible minds, because people could just read up what the catch is and not fall for it, right?

        Unfortunately the scams just adapted, made their own flashy homepages that mostly outranked critical information and people just choose to belive what they want to belive.

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
        18·
        9 months ago

        I would also be fine with them evolving into something more relevant to the times

        • Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          5·
          9 months ago

          it may be hard to believe but womens rights have been progressing steadily. link

          Don’t get me wrong, there’s a long long way to go, but I’m glad they at least seem to be heading in a positive direction.

  • Madrigal@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    9 months ago

    Fair enough. If you want to solve the problem of gender equality, give it to the experts.

  • S_204@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • NotAtWork@startrek.websiteEnglish
      301·
      9 months ago

      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.

        • azertyfun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          9·
          9 months ago

          Kinda was. That’s why the UK and France have a permanent seat on the UNSC but Germany and Japan categorically do not.

          • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Yeah peace through making the bad guys submit. Not rolling over and just letting them take whatever they want because “well if we actually did anything it would cause a scene”

            Like a cop seeing someone break a law and going “wow that sure sounds like a lot of paperwork” and them walking away

      • S_204@lemm.eeEnglish
        73·
        9 months ago

        We’ve avoided world wars by allowing conflicts to fester around the globe. I’d be curious whether the death toll would be higher had there been a world war, but I guess there’s still plenty of people left to die in forgotten places like Sudan so the calculation will have to wait.

        • Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          9 months ago

          Pretty sure the fallout from WW3 is gonna hurt everyone everywhere…war in Sufan is still a pretty long way off from a death toll in the billions.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 months ago

      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.

      • cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        9 months ago

        I’m young and ignorant, so I don’t know what I’m talking about and I’d be open to anyone posting any links for me to learn from. But I remember being in middle and high-school 20 years ago, and learning about the UN’s “millennium goals” that they were trying to achieve by 2015. And they were… awesome. Like the real definition of awesome. They were awe-inspiring. And they made me hopeful as a young teen. And I remember when 2015 came and went and they hadn’t even come close to meeting those goals. And I remember thinking, okay, well, they’ll keep trying. But they didn’t keep trying, and in fact I never heard anyone talk about the millennium goals ever again. And then 2016 came, and at least from my American-centric viewpoint, the world has been on a rapid decline since then. And I am honestly so hopeless, like rock bottom hopless, like, I don’t know what the future is gonna be, but i can’t imagine a good one if we stay on this path, and I don’t know what to do, because I’m not a world leader.

        I used to have so much respect and admiration for the UN but they’re just as garbage as every other power in the world. This post is a fucking joke. My ex partner is from Saudi. I remember excitedly asking him about his opinion and his families opinion when women were first given permission to drive and he was DISGUSTED. Said “this should have happened ages ago, Saudi is using this as a PR move, why should we be happy that women are just now getting this right?”

        Anyway. Sorry for the long response to your sarcastic comment. Have a good day. Xoxo.

        • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          9 months ago

          Sorry that your faith in supranational organisations was so thoroughly squashed. It do be like that though. For a little while, Truman hoped that all nuclear weapons could be put under the control of the UN. Then that went belly up when the soviet union under Stalin learned how to build them. Theres always the IAEA though.

          • doors_3@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            10·
            9 months ago

            Truman never wanted that. He flew around knowing that his nukes gave him an advantage over the USSR. From this paper, it is clear that Truman wanted to maintain an atomic monopoly and as for Joint Chiefs of Staff, they didn’t want to share the nuclear secrets with any organization including the UN.

        • doors_3@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          31·
          9 months ago

          That is an incredibly low bar to judge any organization. There are multiple conflicts going around the world that UN has done nothing to do. When it comes to permanent members of the Security council, the UN is powerless. Heck, it is powerless if one of the permanent members decides to flex it’s muscles somewhere else geographically either.

          Also, no world war is also largely due to presence of nukes with nations. The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction prevents nations from going into full blown wars when 2 nuclear powers are involved.

          • dwalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            81·
            9 months ago

            The UN has the power the nations want to give it. And for now, its this. Dont complain about the UN, complain about our governments

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        The whole point was a united nation front to avoid another Nazi war, but they gave the blue hats no teeth. It served purpose for purpose sake but no real action

      • S_204@lemm.eeEnglish
        23·
        9 months ago

        At one point I’m sure it was helpful to someone. Now it’s just a weapon the oil producing countries plus China of the world wield against the rest.

  • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.worldEnglish
    466·
    9 months ago

    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?

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        163·
        9 months ago

        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.