UN Recognizes Israel As Only Country To Violate Women’s Rights
[guest post by Dana]
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan were among members of the UN’s 54-nation economic and social council, a principal organ of the world body, who voted to single out and condemn Israel yesterday as the only country in the world that violates women’s rights.
The Jewish state was harshly and repeatedly condemned in a resolution, adopted 40 to 2 with 9 abstentions and 3 absent (see breakdown below), for allegedly being the “major obstacle” for Palestinian women “with regard to their advancement, self-reliance, and integration in the development of their society.”
Out of 20 items on the UN Economic and Social Council’s 2018-2019 agenda, only one — Item No. 16 against Israel — focuses on condemning a specific country. All the other focus areas concern global topics such as disaster relief assistance and the use of science and technology for development.
The resolution completely ignores how Palestinian women’s rights are impacted by their own governing authorities—the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and Hamas in Gaza—nor does it mention how women are discriminated against within patriarchal Palestinian society.
Moreover, ECOSOC concluded its annual session by ignoring the world’s worst abusers of women’s rights, refusing to pass a single resolution on the situation of women in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, or DR Congo, all of which ranked in the top ten worst countries in last year’s Global Gender Gap Report, produced by the World Economic Forum.
Here is the breakdown of the vote on condemning Israel for violating women’s rights:
YES: Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Benin, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, India, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Mali, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, South Korea, Russia, St. Vincent, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yemen.
NO: United States and Canada
ABSTAIN: Brazil, Cameroon, Germany, Jamaica, Mexico, Romania, Togo, Ukraine, and United Kingdom
Tell me this organization isn’t just one festering cesspool of unabashed hypocrisy. Some things never change. They just get worse.
(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)
–Dana
Vile.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/25/2019 @ 12:41 pmand shameful. The U.N. does itself a grievous disservice when they go along with this. Good on the US and Canada and shame on our so-called allies and the rest of the moral degenerates.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/25/2019 @ 12:52 pmHave you ever been in the United Nations building? The place is a disaster, a 1947 building that looks older than it is.
The best use for the Turtle Bay property would be to bulldoze the whole place and sell it to private developers. Let ’em go meet in The Hague or someplace, and stop wasting our money by giving it to them.
Cam anyone name even a single useful thing that the UN has done?
The other Dana (822212) — 7/25/2019 @ 1:04 pmthat was Jeremy hunt’s last action, or was that the decision of the un ambassador from the uk who started on the greasy pole as the author of the downing street memo, they are a pretty disgusting lot all told, what up Jairo?
narciso (d1f714) — 7/25/2019 @ 1:08 pmIt’s always jarring to see industrialized, first world countries support this sort of stuff.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/25/2019 @ 1:11 pm5. Why is it jarring? It’s so routine anymore, I just yawn.
Gryph (08c844) — 7/25/2019 @ 1:21 pmThe United Nations needs to GTFOH.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/25/2019 @ 1:26 pmGryph,
I guess it’s jarring to me because I still hold a sliver of hope for sanity.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/25/2019 @ 2:10 pmAt this point, the UN is worthless.
I mean, would we miss it if we kicked the UN out of the US and leave the UN?
Is there any net benefit at all?
whembly (51f28e) — 7/25/2019 @ 2:20 pmIn this I agree with Trump: Stop funding the UN.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/25/2019 @ 2:22 pm8. Hope springs eternal, but optimists are far more likely to be disappointed than pessimists in this day and age.
10. Didn’t he just sign an omnibus spending bill that included funding for the UN (and a bunch of other anti-US organizations and countries)? He’s all talk. I agree with what he says too, but you have to be an idiot to think he’ll be held to his own words.
Gryph (08c844) — 7/25/2019 @ 3:13 pmAll talk, indeed.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/25/2019 @ 4:50 pm3:
The UN inspires me! Where else can you do absolutely nothing of value, spit on the host country, ignore parking tickets with impunity, have a large pension (better than yours–wait–you don’t have one?), and have a great cafeteria? Is this a great country or what?
Harcourt Fenton Mudd (6b1442) — 7/25/2019 @ 4:54 pmMaybe the U.N. figures women have to have rights before anyone can violate them.
Karl Lembke (04a455) — 7/25/2019 @ 5:12 pmIsn’t there an Acting UN Ambassador to say what Nikki Haley said? So far, crickets on the vote.
Israel is a free nation and here’s what Freedom House says about how they treat their women.
I did a check on the 50 Muslim-majority nations on the planet, representing 1.3 billion people, and only two are listed as “free” by Freedom House, Senegal and Tunisia. The rest of the countries treat men and women, in terms of civil liberties and political rights, on a scale of “worse than Israel” to “like s**t”, which is why that UN vote is a complete miscarriage of justice.
Paul Montagu (dbd3cc) — 7/25/2019 @ 5:32 pmSadly, countries like Denmark, Ireland, and Norway, who know better, have been so corrupted that even they would join Iran and Pakistan, etc.
I liken the massive disconnect of first world European countries choosing to side with terrible oppressors and human rights abusers to that of Democrats who want to become our next president literally fighting for the right to kill babies up until the point of birth. The blindness and sheer lack of moral courage just staggers the mind.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/25/2019 @ 5:59 pmNetanhayu is not liked by the rest of the world and neither is trump. Don’t ask people who hate you to be reasonable.
lany (fd499c) — 7/25/2019 @ 6:26 pmOh look: Thomas Reuter’s Foundation surveyed “experts” about which countries are the most dangerous for women. Some familiar ones: India, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and topping it off, the United States. Seriously.
Dana (bb0678) — 7/25/2019 @ 7:12 pmBack in the waning days of the last administration, they had ordered up the converse of this vote, which they were fine with,
Narciso (aa2efd) — 7/25/2019 @ 7:17 pmMemo
To- Nikki
From- Orange Julius.
This is your ‘Captain’ speaking; you’re on board the Boeing BoD now, dear. Best worry about the fate of the 737Max, the wounds to the bottom line, the damage to their reputation– and not getting burned by any of this before you bail. My next VEEP must know how to make a clean jump.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/25/2019 @ 9:46 pm@10/@12. The UN is essential to modern life on this planet.
W/O it, you’d be glowing the dark. See October, 1962 for details.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/26/2019 @ 10:28 am21. I beg to differ. I think we’ve managed to avoid nuking each other *despite* the UN, not because of them. Given what a hotbed the UN is for Kleptocracies, Islamo-fascist regimes, and various-and-sundry America haters, we’re getting very little value for our money even in the way of supposed safety.
Gryph (08c844) — 7/26/2019 @ 1:59 pmSooner we leave the UN and declare their property for sale the better.
NJRob (e6221c) — 7/26/2019 @ 2:06 pm