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[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 158 points 8 months ago
[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 156 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's next? North Korea as chair of the human rights forum?

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 107 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Israel for world peace!
America for workers rights!
Turkmenistan for world trade!

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 80 points 8 months ago

Russia for LGBT+ rights

[–] feine_seife@feddit.de 16 points 8 months ago

Marocco for the Decolonization Committee! Luxemburg for the United Nations Population Fund!

[–] jukibom@lemmy.world 96 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fucking stupid timeline we're trapped in

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[–] liquidparasyte@pawb.social 69 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reality really is beyond satire.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago

~~Satire~~ Sartre : Hell is other people...

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 57 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Man, the world’s gonna be a MUCH better place when the House of Saud finally goes the way of the dinosaur.

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Unless it's just replaced with something objectively worse...which wouldn't be the first time in history something like that happened.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

They already massacred Yemen as a monarchy while their crown prince is known for dismembering journalists, they're about as bad as it gets.

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Maybe I'm just cynical, but I can imagine many, many ways it could get worse and only a few of them involve nuclear or bio weapons.

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[–] Madrigal@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. If you want to solve the problem of gender equality, give it to the experts.

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[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Amnesty is not a news source. They are fundraising, here. The article is devoid of necessary contextual information.

UN Commission executive boards are elected not appointed positions. In some UN bodies, chairs rotate in alphabetical order, but not this one. Maybe there was a midterm vacancy and the seat was filled by an appointment process? What is that process? When is the earliest the seat could be recalled?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't find anything about their process.

There's really not much about it, the UN page is here: https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/gender-equality

Mostly they seem to have conferences every decade or so and occasionally declare a "International day for X". Seems like a PR kind of thing to me.

But at any rate it's a bad look for the UN. Indicates a dysfunction in the organization that whatever process they have allowed this to happen. I mean it looks like it's a PR campaign that actually makes them look bad. If Guterres was competent he'd shut the thing down entirely and start another one that didn't suck. But since he's an idiot and he will probably just say it's somehow Israel's fault.

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (15 children)

Amnesty is not a news source.

It is providing news.

They are fundraising, here.

Their website has a donate button. This article doesn't ask for donations, although it does advertise another Amnesty report.

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[–] S_204@lemm.ee 44 points 8 months ago (12 children)

The UN is a captured organization. It no longer serves its purpose, and is now an arm of the oil producing countries state departments more than anything. I don't have a good suggestion for what to replace it with but it's sure AF not worthy of being respected any longer.

[–] NotAtWork@startrek.website 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The UN's purpose is

"To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;"- United Nations Charter, Chapter I: Article 1: Section 1

the other sections reference international friendship and equal rights, but section 1 is the meat f why it exists, the UN was created after two World Wars, it's primary goal is to prevent a third and has so far been overwhelmingly successful.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think peace through submission was the original goal here though is the point

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kinda was. That's why the UK and France have a permanent seat on the UNSC but Germany and Japan categorically do not.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

I'd rather the assholes of the world think they're accomplishing something by writing bullshit resolutions rather than dropping bombs.

We just have to not take the UN seriously while still having the authoritarian assholes think the UN is serious business.

The Security Council is the only thing that ever really mattered anyway. Having the nuclear powers have to sit in a room together is important. The General Assembly has always been a clown show.

We have a bunch of alliances between democracies (NATO and other alliances) and the security council because we have to negotiate with the authoritarians with nukes. The minor despots can have the UN General Assembly to clown around in. Better to have petty narcissistic dictators throw their tantrums in the UN GA rather than expressing their feelings with their military.

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[–] exanime@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The UN: how can we be more of a joke to the world??

[–] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh oh, let's appoint an atheist to the board of Islamic affairs!

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Even then, I think an average atheist politician would handle Islamic affairs more fairly than an average Muslim politician would handle gender equality affairs, at least in most cases.

There is no atheist book that the atheist has to follow. The Quran, on the other hand, has misogyny kind of built into it, sadly.

Edit: I feel like I should add that this misogyny problem isn't unique to Islam. The Abrahamic religions all have outdated takes on gender equality. I would have the same negative feelings about a devout Christian politician being put in charge of gender equality.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 38 points 8 months ago

Hahahaha.

Klown world.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 35 points 8 months ago

Well, if you want to know how gender inequality works, just ask the Saudis.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I guess the "freedom of the press" forum leadership spot was already taken?

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 months ago

Weren't they head of the human rights council?

[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

The world is not even trying anymore

[–] whiskeyandramen@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

It's getting harder and harder to make satire because it keeps becoming reality.

[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Chick-fil-a is mediocre at best.

Just saying.

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[–] ma11en@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

After COP 28 this totally makes sense.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Well we know his wife won't be driving him to the meetings

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

UN trolling hard these days. Damn

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 8 months ago

People from Saudi Arabia have been on the UN human rights panel for awhile

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago
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