The Saudi Elephant In The Room - The Appointment of Saudi Arabia to the Commission on the Status of Women 2018-2022
Saudi Arabia was among the thirteen states elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in April of 2017. The Commission on the Status of Women is the leading women’s rights promoting and protecting body of the world, whereas the state of Saudi Arabia is infamous for conducting systematic discrimination towards women. The conflicting natures of a state were women’s rights are restricted to