Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum amid ongoing assault on women’s rights
www.amnesty.org
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·
      8 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
      37·
      8 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
        22·
        8 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·
          8 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·
        8 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

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
        16·
        8 months ago

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

        • Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          5·
          8 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.

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

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

    • MissJinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 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·
        8 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.

  • Madrigal@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    8 months ago

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

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16·
        8 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.

    • Summzashi@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      The UN is working 100% as intended. You want world war 3 because you dislike what this article says? Absolutely delusional.