As per a guardian article, Bangladesh was expected to take over but the Saudi govt lobbied for the position and got it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/27/saudi-arabia-un-womens-rights-commission
Fits in Heavy's pocket!
To be perfectly honest the UN does so many things stupid I have very little faith in anything they do.
The last thing you hear before an unstoppable juggernaut bisects you with a minigun.
The Draftsman of Doom
IIRC, the Immoral Republic was also in the running for some high ranking "feminist" UN position as well, Mur.
Edited by SkyCat32 on Mar 31st 2024 at 7:39:31 AM
Rawr.
SEGA!Rockruff
Something I find weird. Sometimes, when a group of women protest against the ban on abortion(or other issues women face for being women), they use pink signs or wear pink shirts. While they have the right to protest, choosing the color pink kind of confuses me, cause it reinforces the idea of associating two certain colors(pink and blue) with gender, and well, colors have no gender.
Edited by CosmosAndChaos on Apr 10th 2024 at 1:58:02 PM
Intended to embody the Beware of Vicious Dog trope plus Super-Speed. Yup.
colors have no gender.
In your opinion, maybe, but it's not an universally shared one. A lot of people associate certain colours with things.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The charing of UN groups is not determined based on a country’s commitment or interest in the mission of that group. What countries sit on each group is based on allocations to each regional grouping (with the Arab World effectively bouncing between the Africa and Asia groups) and then a vote of the nations within that group.
So CSW has 11 members from the Asia group which includes Saudi Arabia because the Asia group gives some seats specifically to Arab Countries in Asia and Saudi Arabia is a powerful nation of that group.
The chairing of the CSW then rotates amongst the different groups, the Asia group is going to have the chair and they selected Saudi Arabia as their person to be the chair, likely because it’s the turn of Arab nation in the Asia group to be the one the group puts forward as chair.
The subject matter covered by UN committees and commissions is in no way connected to membership or chairing of said committees and commissions.
Edited by Silasw on Mar 28th 2024 at 2:26:55 PM
"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran