Women's rights and secularism in the corridors manhandled the UN?
is a thesis in 2008 that raised Malka Marcovich in his pamphlet " Nations broken." Invited by the CLEF (Coordination of European Women's Lobby) early this year to answer the question "Where is the UN lead does women? , Historian and feminist activist and secular does not change his critical ... and "radical," she assumes.
start on 1 January of the institution "UN Women", which comes together four old structures scattered, brand does she not a step forward? We will first testimony in February, when the UN Women lead for the first time the annual meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women . For CLEF, there is hope. Symbolically, in terms of visibility and given the personality of its President Michelle Bachelet , this is indeed not trivial, J. Malka Marcovich. But for the historian's skepticism prevails.
Regression creeping
For the past ten years, observers noted a "creeping regression" of women's rights within the United Nations. Malka Marcovich sees the election of Saudi Arabia among the 47 board members of UN Women's another sign of this trend. A renunciation of western countries towards the offensive and attacks on religious secularism. And an increasingly more pervasive in the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), one group of influence UN assumed a religious character, which comprises 57 member states. Without neglecting, said Malka Marcovich, strengthening the influence of Orthodoxy in Russia or Ukraine, or the growing of churches in South America.
Sophie Del Corso, representative of women's rights department of the government, joined this observation: "It is true that things are becoming more difficult, there is indeed a rise of Islamic competition, more and more uninhibited value for cultural relativism. A relativism thing, bit by bit, in the basic texts of the United Nations.
example of this decline: the return of the concept of "forced prostitution". Until 1993, the term "forced" was mentioned in any UN text, so that the burden of proof does not weigh on prostitutes, said Malka Marcovich. "Who did reappear the context of forced prostitution? Egypt is, in order to criminalize women. "
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