Electing Saudi-Arabia to the UN Commission on the Status of Women is not a bad idea
You read about the references to The Onion , saw the outraged tweets and global disbelief as Saudi Arabia was elected into the UN Commission on the Status of Women . Secret vote (likely incl UK) gives world's most misogynistic state SaudiArabia seat on UN Women's Rights Commission https://t.co/UC1VivVtkD — Charles Shoebridge (@ShoebridgeC) April 24, 2017 ‘ Electing Saudi Arabia to protect women’s rights is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief. It’s absurd. ’ Hillel Neuer, director of UN Watch is quoted by The Independent . But as justified as critique of Saudi-Arabia is, it is important to look beyond the headlines and re-affirm a few core working principles of the UN system (some of which you can and should be critical about-but that’s another blog post, perhaps). Saudi-Arabia is a normal member state of the UN Saudi-Arabia is a regular member state of the UN. The UN system does not judge, there are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ members-there are just members. Ac