A country that flogs women for using bad language
In a bizarre and inexplicable move, Saudi Arabia has been elected to a 2018-2022 term on the U.N’s Commission on the Status of Women, an agency that, according to its website, is “exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.”
In terms of countries that empower women’s rights, Saudi Arabia is probably the last country on people’s minds. Some of the reasons being that Saudi Arabia has been:
- Flogging women who drive;
- Flogging women who travel without men;
- Flogging women who use bad language;
- Allowing child marriages;
- Enforcing the right to beat wives;
- Persecuting lawyers who help rape victims;
- Stoning a woman to death (while just giving her male love flogging)for sex outside of marriage;
Saudi Arabia currently ranks 141/144 for gender equality in the World Economic Forum’s 2016 Global Gender Gap report which statistically demonstrates that it is one of the worst places in the world to be a woman. So their inclusion on the commission is nothing short of a mistake that should be remedied.
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