U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women's Rights

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NEW YORK — Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged "immodest."

Just days after Iran abandoned a high-profile bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, it began a covert campaign to claim a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women, which is "dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women," according to its website.

Buried 2,000 words deep in a U.N. press release distributed Wednesday on the filling of "vacancies in subsidiary bodies," was the stark announcement: Iran, along with representatives from 10 other nations, was "elected by acclamation," meaning that no open vote was requested or required by any member states — including the United States. FOXNews.com learned of the press release only after being alerted to it by Anne Bayefsky director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust.

The U.S. currently holds one of the 45 seats on the body, a position set to expire in 2012. The U.S. Mission to the U.N. did not return requests for comment on whether it actively opposed elevating Iran to the women's commission.

Iran's election comes just a week after one of its senior clerics declared that women who wear revealing clothing are to blame for earthquakes, a statement that created an international uproar — but little affected their bid to become an international arbiter of women's rights.


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Tell me again why the U.N. is important.
 
A simply gobsmacking decision. The UN has become a joke. It has no teeth to enforce human rights, and even the strongly worded memo's it sends out to other nations are only sent out when voted upon by countries like Iran, who are much more interested in beheading people for speaking badly about Islam than, you know, ending beheadings.
 
How in the world could anyone consider the number one guarantor of Peace a joke? I mean, what other entity other than Kellogg-Briand has done as much for the world?

Granted a war mongering country such as the US will bitch, well I guess they will no longer, but at one time, that this is a travesty. Truth is, Iran is at the forefront of the new world attitude towards women, gays, religious non-Muslims, get with the program. The UN has.
 
The UN serves an important diplomatic purpose, even if it's "human rights" division has now become a joke, and pulling out of it would be bad for the US's national interests. It doesn't make up a serious portion of the budget anyway, pulling out of the UN would be deficit peacocking.
 
Mr. Spite said:
The UN serves an important diplomatic purpose, even if it's "human rights" division has now become a joke, and pulling out of it would be bad for the US's national interests. It doesn't make up a serious portion of the budget anyway, pulling out of the UN would be deficit peacocking.
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really? what important diplomatic purpose does it serve?
 
Yurt said:
really? what important diplomatic purpose does it serve?
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When some libtard says 'what gives the US the right to say that Iran shouldn't have nuclear weapons' then I can say 'because your beloved UN says so'.

Other than that, not much.
 
Mr. Spite said:
A simply gobsmacking decision. The UN has become a joke. It has no teeth to enforce human rights, and even the strongly worded memo's it sends out to other nations are only sent out when voted upon by countries like Iran, who are much more interested in beheading people for speaking badly about Islam than, you know, ending beheadings.
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You just noticed all of this?
 
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