Sadly not an April Fool’s joke
Only in the UN could this not be a joke.
Saudi Arabia on the Board for Gender Equality is like North Korea being on a board for disarmament.
Here’s some of the ways women have “equality” in Saudi Arabia:
- Girls and women are forbidden from traveling, conducting official business, education, employment opening a bank account and undergoing certain medical procedures without permission from their male guardians
- Women in public must cover all of their body except their hands and eyes
- Women who socialise with men can be charged with adultery, fornication or prostitution
- Women must enter and exit through special doors in banks, restaurants and other public places
- A woman can only testify in a court of law if six men vouch for them
- Children belong to the father not the mother
- Daughters inherit one half that of sons
- Victims of rape often charged with indecent behaviour