UN expels Iran from women’s rights body for crackdown on protests

A committee of the United Nations Organization on Wednesday expelled by a majority Iran from a women’s rights organization for the brutal repression of protests led by women.

A total of 29 members of the Economic and social Council of the UN (ECOSOC) voted in favor of the measure promoted by the United States to expel the Islamic republic from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW).

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Eight countries voted against and 16 abstained. A simple majority was required to adopt the measure proposed by the United States.

UNCSW is the world’s leading intergovernmental body dedicated exclusively to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.

The ECOSOC resolution strips Iran of its commission membership with immediate effect, claiming that Tehran “continuously undermines and increasingly represses the human rights of women and girls, including the right to freedom of expression and opinion, often with the excessive use of force.”

Likewise, it saddles him with the application of “blatantly contrary policies” not only to human rights but also to the mandate of the commission, “as well as through the use of deadly force that results in the deaths of peaceful protesters, including women and girls.”

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In early November, US Vice President Kamala Harris had said that his country would work with other nations to expel Iran of the commission.

In an initial reaction, the White House National Security Council spokesman, John Kirbygreeted the “important“vote before the treatment that Iran offers “to the peaceful protesters in your country” Y “to the women who launched these protests.”

Those who opposed the move, including Russia and China, pointed out that Iran had been elected to the body and that expelling it feels “a dangerous precedent”.

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The nations that make up the women’s commission are elected by the UN Economic and Social Council, whose members are in turn voted on by the General Assembly.

Iran has been shaken by demonstrations since September 16, when he died in the custody of the morality police Mahsa Aminia young Iranian Kurdish woman who had been arrested for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code.

Since then, authorities have made thousands of arrests in a campaign against what they see as riots. The Iranian judiciary announced 11 death sentences in connection with the protests.

Source: Elcomercio

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