UN-believable: Because When You Think
‘Women’s Rights’ You Think ‘Iran’
This from Michelle Malkin.com
By Doug Powers • April 30, 2010 12:11 PM
From the “It’s a little like hiring John Edwards to be your marriage counselor but way worse” file, we find yet another pathetic reason the US should have nothing to do with the United Nations:
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.
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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.
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This from the The Jerusalem Post
Teheran apparently wins seat by default due to lack of candidates.
Iran has won a seat on the UN Commission on the Status of Women, which works to promote gender equality, it was reported Friday.
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Teheran apparently wins seat by default due to lack of candidates.
Iran has won a seat on the UN Commission on the Status of Women, which works to promote gender equality, it was reported Friday.
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This from the Real Clear Politics
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Who Put Iran in Charge of Women's Rights?
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad campaigned in Uganda and Zimbabwe. Behind the scenes, his flunkies twisted arms and offered favors. For weeks, feelers were sent out to all kinds of unlikely allies. What was the diplomatic prize at stake? Nothing less than a seat on the U.N. council on human rights.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad campaigned in Uganda and Zimbabwe. Behind the scenes, his flunkies twisted arms and offered favors. For weeks, feelers were sent out to all kinds of unlikely allies. What was the diplomatic prize at stake? Nothing less than a seat on the U.N. council on human rights.
This from NationalPost.com
UN looks to Iran for advice on women's rights
The UN seems determined to never let a chance go by to make itself look ridiculous.
The latest example is the election last week of Iran as a member of the Commission on the Status of Women, part of the UN’s economic and social council.
Women are so overwhelmingly discriminated against in Iran that they'd have to make considerable progress just to claim second-rate status.
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Talk about putting the fox in charge of the hen house. This would be proof positive that we need to evict the UN from it's New York digs and leave them in our wake. What is wrong with them? Do they do something like this because they think they are out of reach.***************************************************************
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