On Saudi women’s rights, the UN has it shockingly wrong | Peter Bradshaw

It’s absurd that a country whose women are ‘empowered’ to be submissive to men has been elected to the UN’s new equality commissionThere is a great scene in the HBO comedy Veep, in which Selina Meyer, the US vice-president played by Julia-Louis Dreyfus, sets up a “symposium on race” in order to make her look more serious and concerned. As she is introduced one by one to the individual panel members, Meyer makes a heart-sinking discovery. “Why are they al