UN Insults Israel Again

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND -- The U.N. Economic and Social Council approved 40-2 a resolution that targets only Israel for alleged violations of women’s rights, yet does not include other countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan, all notorious for often misogynistic policies and denying basic rights to women. The United States and Canada were the only countries that voted against the resolution. The U.N. Council concluded its annual session by ignoring the world’s worst abusers of women’s rights, refusing to pass a single resolution about women in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, or DR Congo, all of which ranked in the top ten worst countries in the 2018 Global Gender Gap Report, produced by the World Economic Forum.