People are celebrating this, and that’s fine, but remember: the Islamic Republic of Iran didn’t just start oppressing women a few months ago. The Islamic Republic of Iran has always oppressed women. It was oppressing women when it was put on this women’s rights committee in the first place. So don’t start assuming that the UN has become sane. It hasn’t. It’s just bowing to public outrage. It will turn around and call for laws against “Islamophobia” again tomorrow, despite the fact that everything the Islamic Republic of Iran does to women is based on Islamic law.
“Iran Booted From UN Women’s Rights Panel,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, December 14, 2022:
The United Nations voted on Wednesday to remove Iran from its place on a women’s rights committee, drawing applause from Iranian dissidents who are seeking to depose the hardline regime following its murder of a 22-year-old woman who improperly wore her head covering.
The United States led the charge to see Iran booted from the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women, where it has served since 2019 even though it is one of the world’s foremost human rights abusers. The United States draft resolution was passed after 29 countries voted in favor, with 8 against and 16 abstentions.
Iran’s role on the women’s committee was challenged from the very start by opponents of the hardline regime who cited its record of oppressing and killing women. In light of an ongoing protest movement in Iran fueled by the regime’s abuse of women and girls, the U.N. signaled that international outrage was too great to let Tehran remain on the commission, which works to empower women and create gender parity.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., described Iran’s presence on the committee as an “ugly stain on the commission’s credibility,” according to Reuters. Iran’s U.N. ambassador described the vote as illegal and called the United States a bully for leading the charge.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the vote “is another sign of the growing international consensus on Iran and demands for accountability.” The United States, he said, “is working with our allies and partners around the world to hold Iran accountable for the abuses it is committing against its own people, notably peaceful protesters, women, and girls.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken also described the U.N.’s action as “an unmistakable message of support from around the world to the brave people of Iran, and in particular to Iranian women and girls, who remain undaunted despite the brutality and violence perpetrated against them by the Iranian regime.”…
BTeboe says
Why is Iran even in the UN? Women under Islam do NOT have human rights.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The structure of the UN is ridiculous, where they pretend that every nation’s vote is equal, and that a vote by the US or China or India is the same as a vote by Burundi or Bolivia or El Salvador. If they weighted them according to certain metrics, like population, economic power, military power and so on, it might be more meaningful
Keith O says
Infidel, the one country, one vote makes better sense.
Imagine the outcome if a country like China, with a few billion people, wanted to screw over Australia, with only about 25 million.
China would have more votes and would be able to control smaller nations with their votes rather than their army. A bit like the old colonial days.
As much as the UN is a train wreck, it’s still better than the alternative.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Keith, there’s that, and then there’s the counter example of a US vote being equivalent to a vote of, say, Yemen. And note that population ain’t the only metric I mentioned: it would be a combination of population, economic power, military power and so on. It would seem that Australia would do a lot better in the latter 2 categories, as opposed to just the first one
I also think that China’s economy is about to crash – both due to the protests within their country, as well as the fact that w/ the worldwide recession, them being the world’s manufacturing hub means that nobody will be able to buy their goods. And already some companies are exploring alternatives, like Vietnam and India
gravenimage says
The United Nations is such a mess because most nations are unfree.
PRCS says
The resolution to boot Iran was introduced by the United States in the U.N.’s 54-seat Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and passed with the support of 29 nations over the objections of eight member countries while 16 voting members abstained from the vote.
The countries voting against removing Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women were:
Bolivia
China
Kazakhstan
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Oman
Russia
Zimbabwe
PRCS says
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/12/14/un-vote-on-irans-seat-on-womens-rights-commission-n2617128
Walter Sieruk says
.It’s well about time, the United Nations should never have put, or even considered putting that horrible anti-female Islamic Republic of Iran on the Women’s Rights penal to being with.
For that brutal tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran is based on the foundation of Islam and Sharia, both are infested with cruel opressive vicious malicious and deadly misogyny.
gravenimage says
UN removes Islamic Republic of Iran from women’s rights panel
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I guess this became too embarrassing even for the UN. But expect similar bs from them on women’s rights and human rights.