Iran may be excluded from UN women’s body
2022.12.14 00:40
Iran may be excluded from UN women’s body
Budrigannews.com – Diplomats said that a number of countries are expected to abstain from the vote requested by the United States, but Iran appears to be set to be removed from a U.N. women’s body on Wednesday for policies that violate the rights of women and girls.
A United States-drafted resolution to “remove with immediate effect the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women for the remainder of its 2022-2026 term” will be put to a vote by the 54 members of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
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The Commission on the Status of Women, which has 45 members, meets every March to work toward gender equality and women’s empowerment. Reuters was informed by a U.S. official that they had “consistently seen growing support” for removing Iran.
“Will undoubtedly create an unwelcome precedent that will ultimately prevent other Member States with different cultures, customs, and traditions… from contributing to the activities of such Commissions,” Iran, 17 other states, and the Palestinians argued in a letter to ECOSOC on Monday.
“New trend for expelling sovereign and rightfully-elected States from any given body of the international system, if ever perceived as inconvenient and a circumstantial majority could be secured for imposing such maneuvers,” the letter urged members to vote against the U.S. move.
Only five of the letter’s signatories are ECOSOC members at the moment and can vote on Wednesday.
The Islamic Republic executed a man in public on Monday who, according to state media, had been convicted of killing two members of the security forces. This was the second execution of protesters in less than a week.
Three months ago, the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini while she was being held by morality police enforcing the Islamic Republic’s mandatory dress code laws sparked nationwide unrest.
One of the most significant challenges to the Shi’ite clerical elite’s legitimacy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution is the demonstrations’ transformation into a popular revolt by irate Iranians from all strata of society.
The upheaval has been attributed to Iran’s foreign adversaries and their agents.
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Activists applauded the U.N. Rights Council’s vote last month to appoint an independent investigation into Iran’s deadly repression of protests. Tehran called the “appalling and disgraceful” use of the council by Western nations to target Iran.
