{"id":443689,"date":"2021-04-22T21:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T01:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=443689"},"modified":"2021-04-22T21:06:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T01:06:03","slug":"u-n-elects-iran-china-to-womens-rights-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-n-elects-iran-china-to-womens-rights-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. Elects Iran, China To Women\u2019s Rights 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\">16<\/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%2Fu-n-elects-iran-china-to-womens-rights-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=443689&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3381.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The United Nations on Tuesday voted to elect notorious human rights abusers Iran and China to the international body\u2019s commission on women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N.\u2019s Economic and Social Council voted to elect Iran and China to the\u00a0Commission on the Status of Women, which is \u201cexclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.\u201d Iran received 43 votes and China 48 votes out of a total of 53 votes.\u00a0The countries\u2019 four-year terms on the commission will begin next year.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s atrocious record on human rights, including women\u2019s rights, is\u00a0well-documented. The state terror sponsor allows underage marriages of girls as young as 13 \u2014 and as young as 9 with parental permission \u2014 enforces strict restrictions on women\u2019s clothing, and carries out child executions. Women are severely limited regarding their physical mobility, education, financial independence, and work opportunities and pay. As many as 450 Iranian women are murdered in \u201chonor killings\u201d every year.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as 2019, a U.N. panel chastised Iran for its poor record on women\u2019s rights and urged the country to adopt specific improvements. Just last month, the State Department released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices\/iran\/\">report<\/a> calling Iran an \u201cauthoritarian theocratic republic\u201d that commits significant human rights abuses including a lack of accountability for violence against women. Also in 2019, authorities forced a pair of twin sisters to record a\u00a0\u201cconfession\u201d in which the sisters called themselves \u201cnaive, dumb, and passive\u201d and \u201cof weak personality,\u201d for protesting hijab laws, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>In China, women have been limited to having only two children since 2015, when China loosened its draconian decades-old one-child policy. More recently, the world\u2019s second-largest economy has taken extreme measures to curb birth rates among\u00a0Uyghurs and other minorities in order to suppress China\u2019s\u00a0Muslim population. The\u00a0Chinese government systematically forces minority women to take pregnancy tests and submit to forced sterilization, intrauterine birth control devices, and abortions. Since 2017, the government has detained at least one million Uyghur Muslims and other minorities and forced them into \u201cre-education camps,\u201d where they are meant to learn loyalty to the state.<\/p>\n<p>China also openly discriminates against women in the workplace, especially if the woman has children, and has a domestic violence epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups immediately expressed their chagrin and condemned the U.N. vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElecting the Islamic Republic of Iran to protect women\u2019s rights is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief,\u201d said Hillel Neuer, executive director of human rights group UN Watch, which first reported Iran\u2019s election to the commission. \u201cIt\u2019s absurd \u2014 and morally reprehensible. This is a black day for women\u2019s rights, and for all human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UN Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/unwatch.org\/at-least-4-eu-western-democracies-voted-to-elect-iran-to-un-womens-rights-commission\/\">pointed out<\/a> that\u00a0despite the ballot being secret,\u00a0at least four out of 15 Western democracies must have voted for Iran. Likewise, at least nine Western democracies must have voted for China. The countries that may have voted for Iran or China\u2019s presence on the commission include\u00a0Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Latvia, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield has yet to comment on Iran and China\u2019s election to the women\u2019s rights commission.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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