UN chooses Saudi Arabia to chair women's rights forum

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : family, from marriage to divorce, child custody and inheritance, and does not protect women from gender violence.
53% : And, he recalled that the Saudi Arabia Personal Status Law of 2022, which the authorities of this country cite as an example of their progress towards equality, in reality what it does is "consolidate gender discrimination in all aspects of life."
52% : The Saudi ambassador to the UN, Abdulaziz Alwasil, was elected president of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) last Wednesday by "acclamation", without rival candidates or opposing voices emerging during the annual meeting that the CSW held in New York.
48% : But when the outgoing president, the Philippine representative to the UN, Antonio Manuel Lagdameo, asked the 45 members of the commission if they had any objection to Alwasil, there was complete silence in the room, prompting Lagdameo to give approved the appointment after ensuring that "I did not hear any objections; "That's how it's decided.
27% : ""The election of Saudi Arabia as head of the CSW shows a shocking disregard for women's rights around the world; A country that imprisons women simply because they defend their rights does not have to be the main face of the UN forum for gender equality," said Louis Charbonneau, HRW representative to the UN, in statements reported by The Guardian.

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