United Nations – The U.N. Commission on the Status of Women approved a resolution Friday blaming Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian territory for “the grave situation of Palestinian women.”
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Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor denounced the resolution saying it was further proof of the U.N.’s bias against Israel, as it was the only country singled out by the 45-member commission.
The resolution, sponsored by the Palestinians and South Africa, was adopted by a vote of 27-2 with 13 abstentions. The United States and Israel voted against it and European Union members abstained.
The vote took place on the final day of the commission’s two-week meeting which reviewed the 150-page platform for action to achieve equality for women adopted at the U.N. women’s conference in Beijing in 1995. The commission set a new goal of 2030 to achieve gender equality.
The resolution stressed the quest for equality and reaffirmed “that the Israeli occupation remains the major obstacle for Palestinian women with regard to their advancement, self-reliance and integration in the development of their society.” It called on the international community to continue providing urgently needed assistance and services “to alleviate the dire humanitarian crisis being faced by Palestinian women and their families.”
It also condemned last summer’s Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza which killed and injured thousands of civilians including hundreds of Palestinian women and girls.
Prosor accused the Palestinians of mistreating women, noting that “honor killings in the Palestinian Authority are a matter of daily occurrence, and employment of women stands at only 17 percent.” That compares with 70 percent of men.
“Of the 193 member states in this institution, dozens slaughter innocent civilians and impose discriminatory laws that marginalize women and yet they all get a free pass,” he said, noting that the commission includes “some of the worst violators of human rights like Iran and Sudan.”
Is the UN still relevant?
If they want women rights they can go to any Muslim country. In Israel there is barely male rights… Kidding here. So dumb
So Israel is responsible for Palestinian honor-killings. We should scrap this organization of modern day Nazis.
Turn the UN into a HOMELESS SHELTER.
This is really like a Purim shpiel, only they’re 2 weeks late. Israel is the only country in the middle east that even takes these honor killings seriously and prosecutes them, but is singled out for being the source of the problems. And black is white and purple is green.
And while the U.N. (United Nazis) is blaming Israel for the plight of these poor Pali “women,” they might as well blame Israel for global warming because of all the heat generated by the falafel ball deep fryers in use!
a new low….
We can laugh at these insane UN resolutions all we want, but unfortunately they are laying the ground work for the future ignorant generations to be anti semitic who will believe it as truths, just as people laughed at holocaust deniers 30-40 years ago.
What about the Saudis banning women from driving and all the Arab counties that punish women for imodesty? Or the forced marriages of you girls to old men? Maybe the UN can send in troops to give womem minimal rights in Arab countries?
The solution is to send all Palestinian women to Saudi Arabia where they can enjoy equal rights.
Has anyone ever seen a picture of a Pally without his/her mouth open?
The United Nazi single out Israel when al other moslim countries are the same or worse. Wha a bunch of antisemites!
the UN should be grateful to Israel because it is responsible for the one thing that unites them – bad-mouthing Israel.