Saudi Arabia Elected To U.N.'s New Women's Rights agency

Another example of what a dysfunctional organization the U.N. has become.  What a fraud.  What a sham.

From Jihad Watch:

Saudi Arabia elected to UN's new women's rights agency


Pamela Geller sums it up: "This defies western logic, but not the agenda of the OIC-driven, sharia compliant UN. Saudi Arabia, where a 32-year-old woman is jailed for disobeying her father, where a pregnant gang-rape victim is sentenced to 100 lashes for committing adultery, where women are not allowed to drive, where women are lashed for being in the company of any male who is not a relative, where a 75-year-old could be flogged for breaching sex segregation rules, where a Saudi father weds his daughter, 10, to an 80-year-old pervert: "according to the shari'a his marriage is legal as long as the girl's father consents," where a child bride is turned back over to her 80-year-old husband........... must I go on?"



"U.N. Rejects Iran's Bid for Seat on Women's Rights Panel," from FoxNews.com, November 10 (thanks to Pamela Geller):





The United Nations on Wednesday rejected Iran's bid for a seat to the board of the new U.N. agency to promote equality for women after fierce opposition from the United States and human rights groups to Tehran's treatment of women.

But the U.N. accepted the bid of Saudi Arabia, which is also opposed by human rights groups.



Iran, which has been criticized for its record on women's rights, received only 19 votes -- short of the necessary 28 votes for approval.



In recent months, Iran sparked an international outcry by sentencing to death by stoning a woman convicted of adultery.



In Saudi Arabia, women are not allowed to drive and are barred from many facilities used by men....

Posted by Robert on November 10, 2010 2:19 PM