{"id":21244,"date":"2017-04-24T22:53:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T22:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21244"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:53:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T22:53:53","slug":"saudis-on-un-womens-panel-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21244","title":{"rendered":"Saudis on UN women’s panel? Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Critics of the United Nations — and I am not<\/em> one of them — gripe often about the absurd decisions the world body makes.<\/p>\n

I have to concede that the U.N. has made a bonehead call by placing Saudi Arabia on its Commission on\u00a0the Status of Women.<\/p>\n

Huh? What the … ?<\/p>\n

Does anyone need reminding here that women are not allowed to, um, drive motor vehicles <\/em>in Saudi Arabia? How about pay equity? Women\u00a0earn a fraction of what Saudi men earn. Saudi women aren’t even allowed to make critical decisions without a man’s approval, for crying out loud!<\/p>\n

Sheesh!<\/p>\n

The Miami Herald reports\u00a0that the Saudis formed a “girls council,” but didn’t appoint any females to it.<\/p>\n

Good ever-lovin’\u00a0grief, man.<\/p>\n

The United Nations needs to think about this.<\/a>\u00a0I doubt the U.N. would rescind the appointment. Bureaucrats tend to cover their backsides even as they undergo push back from goofy decisions.<\/p>\n

The anti-U.N. crowd in this country has been handed plenty of grist with which to beat the world body bloody. I won’t join them in calling for the end of the United Nations.<\/p>\n

Decisions such as this one involving the Saudis and the women’s commission, though, does give me pause.<\/p>\n\n

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Critics of the United Nations — and I am not one of them — gripe often about the absurd decisions the world body makes. I have to concede that the U.N. has made a bonehead call by placing Saudi Arabia on its Commission on\u00a0the Status of Women. Huh? What the … ? Does anyone need … Continue reading Saudis on UN women’s panel? Huh?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4128,5014,5287],"class_list":["post-21244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-nations","tag-womens-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21245,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244\/revisions\/21245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}