{"id":1775387,"date":"2022-12-14T16:47:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775387"},"modified":"2022-12-14T16:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:47:59","slug":"iran-booted-from-u-n-womens-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-booted-from-u-n-womens-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Booted From U.N. Women\u2019s Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firan-booted-from-u-n-womens-commission%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775387&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran<\/a> was kicked out of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/united-nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations<\/a> commission dedicated to women\u2019s rights on Wednesday following the United States\u2019 push to have the country excluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The country was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/iran-ousted-un-womens-rights-commission-rcna61710\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ousted<\/a> from the United Nations\u2019 Commission on the Status of Women after 29 members of the United Nations Economic and Social Council voted for a resolution that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/us-news\/2022\/12\/14\/landmark-resolution-ousts-iran-from-un-womens-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brought<\/a> by the United States to remove Iran from the commission for the rest of its term, which started this year and ends in 2026. Sixteen members abstained from the vote and eight of the members voted in opposition to it.<\/p>\n<p>The draft resolution was co-sponsored by Australia, Albania, Canada, Israel, Guatemala, New Zealand, Liberia, North Macedonia, as well as the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe recent horrifying executions in Tehran only strengthen our resolve to expand this growing consensus and pursue all possible mechanisms of accountability against the Iranian regime and its officials responsible for these atrocities,\u201d White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/12\/14\/u-n-member-states-vote-to-oust-iran-from-womens-rights-panel-00073886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Iran pushed back against the effort to kick them out, sending a letter to the council, along with 17 additional states and the Palestinians, on Monday. Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-likely-be-ousted-un-womens-body-2022-12-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> a vote on the resolution \u201cwill undoubtedly create an unwelcome precedent that will ultimately prevent other Member States with different cultures, customs and traditions \u2026 from contributing to the activities of such Commissions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Iran came on board the commission in March, which meets every year and \u201cis the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women,\u201d according to the commission\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/csw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The country was set to continue holding a place on the panel until 2026, even though Iran has long denied women their basic rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maggiemcgrath\/2022\/12\/06\/mahsa-amini-the-spark-that-ignited-a-women-led-revolution\/?sh=3e21f7495c3d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed<\/a> away while in police custody when she was arrested for \u201cimproperly\u201d wearing a hijab, protests erupted across the country. Since the protests, the Iranian government has detained massive numbers of protesters. Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/iran-will-hold-public-trials-for-at-least-1000-detained-protestors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced that it would be publicly trying protesters<\/a> and followed through over the past week as two people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/12\/world\/middleeast\/iran-protests-execution.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">involved<\/a> with the protests were were publicly hanged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In Iran, women are routinely at a significant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2022\/11\/16\/iranian-womens-demands-freedom-must-be-heard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disadvantage<\/a> when compared to men. The country\u2019s Civil Code dictates that a woman\u2019s husband has the ability to decide where the family lives and he can keep his wife from working in certain areas if he thinks it is against \u201cfamily values.\u201d A woman also needs to get permission from her husband to get a passport and be able to go on foreign travel.<\/p>\n<p>Women make up more than 50% of people who graduate from universities in Iran, but in 2020, their labor force participation was 14%, whereas men\u2019s was 70% after both dipping from 2019 rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Women have even had acid hurled on them likely because they were not appropriately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/acid-attacks-iranian-women-linked-bad-hijab-294274346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clothed<\/a>.\u00a0They have also been physically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/blog-post\/gender-based-violence-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abused<\/a> in public by the morality police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran was kicked out of a United Nations commission dedicated to women\u2019s rights on Wednesday following the United States\u2019 push to have the country excluded. 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