When has Iran stood for Women’s Rights!
Culture 11:44 AM
by Sheela Venero of Drawnlines Politics.
I am tickled at the idea that Iran feels fit to sit on any human rights board. To begin, Iran was lobbying to secure a seat on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) that has been earmarked for Asian Countries. Human rights campaigners were in opposition of any decision to allow Iran to sit on the HRC alongside already controversial countries such as China, Cuba and Saudia Arabia. However, Iran dropped their bid to sit on the HRC in attempts to earn a spot on the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a seat they easily were elected to by the United Nations.
So let’s recap, Iran is sitting on the Commission of the Status of Women for the next four years. This is a 45 member commission whose sole purpose is “dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women”.
This is a country where just last week, senior clerics said women who wear revealing clothing are to blame for the earthquakes that have taken place around the world. In Iran any women seen in public without wearing the Hijab is punished with 74 lashes. Iran is a country where women are voiceless. This is a society that has no problem burying a woman in the ground to her chest and then stoning her. Of course let’s not forget to mention that in the Iranian constitution, article 209 states that a woman’s life is valued at only half of a man’s.
Iran is not a country that stands for women’s rights in their own country and surely they will not on the Commission on the Status of Women. Their inclusion on this commission is a slap in the face to every woman in the world, especially those who live everyday in Iran holding onto the hope that one day their situation will get better.
Who was UN appeasing by electing Iran to the Commission on the Status of Women? What political motive do they stand to gain to have a country so anti-women’s rights sit on a commission whose sole purpose is to advance women?
Read more about Iranian Laws against women by clicking here.
Read the United Nation's press release on filling the vacancies on subsidiary bodies, here.
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I am tickled at the idea that Iran feels fit to sit on any human rights board. To begin, Iran was lobbying to secure a seat on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) that has been earmarked for Asian Countries. Human rights campaigners were in opposition of any decision to allow Iran to sit on the HRC alongside already controversial countries such as China, Cuba and Saudia Arabia. However, Iran dropped their bid to sit on the HRC in attempts to earn a spot on the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a seat they easily were elected to by the United Nations.
So let’s recap, Iran is sitting on the Commission of the Status of Women for the next four years. This is a 45 member commission whose sole purpose is “dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women”.
This is a country where just last week, senior clerics said women who wear revealing clothing are to blame for the earthquakes that have taken place around the world. In Iran any women seen in public without wearing the Hijab is punished with 74 lashes. Iran is a country where women are voiceless. This is a society that has no problem burying a woman in the ground to her chest and then stoning her. Of course let’s not forget to mention that in the Iranian constitution, article 209 states that a woman’s life is valued at only half of a man’s.
Iran is not a country that stands for women’s rights in their own country and surely they will not on the Commission on the Status of Women. Their inclusion on this commission is a slap in the face to every woman in the world, especially those who live everyday in Iran holding onto the hope that one day their situation will get better.
Who was UN appeasing by electing Iran to the Commission on the Status of Women? What political motive do they stand to gain to have a country so anti-women’s rights sit on a commission whose sole purpose is to advance women?
Read more about Iranian Laws against women by clicking here.
Read the United Nation's press release on filling the vacancies on subsidiary bodies, here.
For videos and archives visit Drawnlines Politics OnlineAND check us out on FACEBOOK
Posted by Sheela Venero
on 11:44 AM.
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That's a good point.
How can we expect Iran to promote equality and success of women around the world when they don't even do it in their own country?
The UN has lost its mind once again.
That's a good point.
How can we expect Iran to promote equality and success of women around the world when they don't even do it in their own country?
The UN has lost its mind once again.
"This is a country where just last week, senior clerics said women who wear revealing clothing are to blame for the earthquakes that have taken place around the world..."
I would like to point out that in our country, our religious leaders often blame major travesties on our open attitude toward gays and other socially liberal policies, so this isn't exactly a good point.