Iran kills women; UN rewards it with appointment to Women's Rights Committee

American Thinker ^ | 03/15/2019 | Ethel Fenig

[SeekAndFind]

This headline summarizes the whole sorry story of the tragic joke that the U.N. has become.

Expanding on this latest U.N. action on site at the U.N. Women's Commission, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, Hillel Neuer of the invaluable U.N. Watch tweets out the charade of the U.N.'s latest action better than any summary.

As you follow the tweets, be sure to admire Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for publicly stating, "We can never rest in the fight for human rights."

And then puzzle at the "obscene decision" by Ireland's female ambassador to the U.N., Geraldine Byrne Nason, in her capacity as chair of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, to nominate Iran to the U.N.'s Working Group on Communication on the Status of Women "a day after the regime sentenced women's rights lawyer Nasrin Sotudeh to 38 years prison & 148 lashes." Or any other day.

For good measure, Nason also approved the selection of Nigeria to the committee. And just two years ago, Ireland elected Saudi Arabia — yes, that Saudi Arabia, which does not allow women to travel abroad without a male guardian's permission — to the same women's commission.

Neuer explained the implications of this decision:

"In Iran's new position on the UN working group, the theocratic government of Ayatallah Khamenei will consider complaints and government responses to allegations of discriminatory practices against women in categories including forced disappearances, death and torture of women in custody, and violation of the rights of women human rights defenders to freedom of expression and assembly.

According to the UN, as a working group member, Iran will be responsible for identifying "trends and patterns of reliably-attested injustice and discriminatory practices against women."

[Fido969]

Perhaps AOC would care to comment.

[EinNYC]

US out of the UN; UN out of the US.

[JimRed]

Do they kill random women, just because they can, or do they kill female criminals? Do they treat female criminals the same as they treat male criminals? If they’re equally savage to both then they are HUMAN rights violators, not WOMEN’S rights violators.

What they consider criminal should be the point in question. “Crimes” like speaking out against the state, the leaders or dissing Islam...

True criminals (murderers, extortionists, rapists, thieves, etc.) are not worthy of tender treatment.