Saudi Arabia was elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
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Saudi Arabia elected to U.N. women’s right commission
Saudi Arabia was elected to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. The addition of the Gulf nation was first flagged by UN Watch, a non-governmental body that monitors the United Nations. The commission’s main theme is to assess the challenges to reaching gender inequality, according to the U.N.