And..... the plot thickens.
Who Voted Saudis Onto UN Gender-Equality Body? Democracies Still Won’t Say
Hmmmmm, I wonder why? LOL
United Nations elects Saudi Arabia to Women's Rights Commission
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Saudi Arabia is only one of the members of the Commission. This is not Armageddon! Prince Mohammed Ibn Salman is planning a gigantic amusment park in Riad, Saudi Arabia, with Alcohol, cinemas and theaters.
There are many women fighting in Arabia to achieve the standards that are garantueed by the Basic Law and the holy Quoran, to which the King is committed to. Under these circumtances integration is the best way! Many women with higher education have high positions in Arabia. A modernisation has to be supported.
Women Rights
Saudia Arabia was once participating in the draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ) and was present at the ceremonial declaration but it abstained in the final vote like the communist countries and apartheid africa.
The Saudi Arabian delegation abstained in the final vote mostly for two reasons: because of the wording of Article 16 on equal marriage rights and because of objections to the clause in Article 18 which states that everyone has the right to change his religion or belief. In an essay he wrote later, Cassin pointed out that the inclusion of Article 18 had not prevented other countries with Muslim populations, like Syria, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan, from voting for the Declaration.(10) http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/udhr/udhr_general/drafting_history_10.html
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/udhr/udhr_general/drafting_history_10.html
Turkey—a secular state with an overwhelmingly Muslim population—signed the Declaration in 1948.[30] However, the same year, Saudi Arabia abstained from the ratification vote on the Declaration, claiming that it violated Sharia law.[31] Pakistan—which had signed the declaration—disagreed and critiqued the Saudi position.[32]Pakistani minister Muhammad Zafarullah Khan strongly argued in favor of including freedom of religion.[33] In 1982, the Iranian representative to the United Nations, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, said that the Declaration was "a secular understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition" which could not be implemented by Muslims without conflict with Sharia.[34] On 30 June 2000, members of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation) officially resolved to support the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam,[35] an alternative document that says people have "freedom and right to a dignified life in accordance with the Islamic Shari'ah", without any discrimination on grounds of "race, colour, language, sex, religious belief, political affiliation, social status or other considerations".
Saudi Arabia has the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights but cooperates with U.N. who has the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
UDHR vs CDHRI
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2012/12/10/1569/
women rights: The CDHRI is less universal, stipulating in Article 6 that woman is equal to man in human dignity, and has rights to enjoy as well as duties to perform. The very nature of this clause undermines gender equality as it infers, arguably with good reason, that Shari’a law prescribes men and women different rights and duties. Men and women are equal, but different and should be considered as such in the eyes of the law and their rights protected as such in human rights declarations. The CDHRI, through its pandering to conservative interpretations of Shari’a law, enables the violation of other human rights that women should enjoy including the entitlement to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state and equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.