The UN, Iran & Women's rights: Just more proof that the world is going to hell

[DaemonSeid]

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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.

[AOII Angel]

WTF? Well...women just took a giant leap back.

As word of Iran's intention to join the women's commission came out, a group of Iranian activists circulated a petition to the U.N. asking that member states oppose its election.

"Iran's discriminatory laws demonstrate that the Islamic Republic does not believe in gender equality," reads the letter, signed by 214 activists and endorsed by over a dozen human rights bodies.

The letter draws a dark picture of the status of women in Iran: "women lack the ability to choose their husbands, have no independent right to education after marriage, no right to divorce, no right to child custody, have no protection from violent treatment in public spaces, are restricted by quotas for women's admission at universities, and are arrested, beaten, and imprisoned for peacefully seeking change of such laws."

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

WTF? Well...women just took a giant leap back.

No...not without the expressed instructions from a man you did not. Only when a man tells you to leap shall you leap.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

No...not without the expressed instructions from a man you did not. Only when a man tells you to leap shall you leap.

I forgot we were playing real life "Simon says"