"But the statement is far too diplomatic-speak for my taste," she added. This work is vital. The U.S. statement also drew a critical response from Gabriel Noronha, a former State Department special adviser on Iran under President Joe Biden's predecessor Donald Trump. Iran won 43 votes in the anonymous ballot at the UN's 54-nation Ecosoc, the smallest number of votes of those newly elected to sit on the panel from . As recently as 2019, a U.N. panel chastised Iran for its poor record on womens rights and urged the country to adopt specific improvements. Vice President Kamala Harris vowed Wednesday that the United States would work to remove Iran from a UN body on women's rights as she saluted the . The United States announced on Wednesday it will seek to oust Iran from the UN's premiere global body fighting for gender equality because of its violation of the rights of women and girls and its ongoing crackdown on demonstrators who took to the streets in September after the death of a 22-year-old woman taken into custody by the morality police. UN Women stands with the women of Iran in their rightful demands to protest injustice without reprisal, and to be free to exercise their bodily autonomy, including their choice of dress and also supports them in seeking accountability, and the upholding of their basic human rights as stipulated in the Charter of the United Nations. 02 November 2022 - 18:50. US to Seek Iran's Ouster From UN's Top Women's Rights Body. Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22 . Iran's presence alone discredits the integrity and work of the body. UN Human Rights Council must hold a special session on Iran. Just last month, Javaid Rehman, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, slammed the nations treatment of women. On Wednesday, Iran was elected to a second four-year term on the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a body charged with advancing gender equality and the rights of women around the world. The United States will work to remove Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, US Vice President Kamala Harris announced Wednesday. Harris said that the United States would work with other nations to oust Iran from the UN . Women are not permitted by the government to have certain jobs, and must remain covered in public as a result of mandatory headscarf laws. The U.N.'s Economic and Social Council voted to elect Iran and China to the Commission on the Status of Women, which is "exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women." Iran received 43 votes and China 48 votes out of a total of 53 votes. "That is why the United States called for the vote on the Commission on the Status of Women, specifically to allow countries to register their opposition," the spokesperson wrote. Since 1946, the Commission on the Status of Women has worked to promote gender equality and empower women around the world. UN Women stands with the women of Iran in their rightful demands to protest injustice without reprisal, and to be free to exercise their bodily autonomy, including their choice of dress and also supports them in seeking accountability, and the upholding of their basic human rights as stipulated in the Charter of the United Nations. ADDS quotes from UN session, Iran reaction. the recent protests were sparked by outrage at the death in custody of mahsa (jina) amini, a 22 year old woman from the kurdish minority, on 16 september 2022 days after being arrested by the "morality" police for not complying with the country's discriminatory and abusive compulsory veiling laws, which perpetuate violence against women and girls The countries' four-year terms on the commission will begin next year. Each regional group in ECOSOC typically nominates one country for each seat allotted to it in bodies such as the women's commission, meaning there is no competition among the nominated states. More recently, the worlds second-largest economy has taken extreme measures to curb birth rates amongUyghurs and other minorities in order to suppress ChinasMuslim population. 03 Nov 2022 02:42AM (Updated: 03 Nov 2022 02:42AM) UNITED NATIONS: The United States will try to remove Iran from the 45-member UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) over the government's . The United States has reiterated its concern about Irans poor human rights record in its first official comment on the Islamic republics election last week to the United Nations top legislative body on womens rights. Irans atrocious record on human rights, including womens rights, iswell-documented. Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, an umbrella agency of 2,000 U.N. employees working on women-related issues. WASHINGTON -. In recent days Iran has seen deep public unrest, with demonstrations and protests taking place in some 80 cities, triggered by the tragic death of Mahsa Amini, who was detained by authorities in Tehran on 13 September and died, while in custody, three days later. We align with the remarks by theHigh Commissioner for Human Rightson the need to ensure the rights to due process and release for all womenwho have been arbitrarily detained and with theSpecial Procedures of the Human Rights Council, in the call for the Iranian authorities to hold an independent, impartial, and prompt investigation into Ms Aminis death, to make the findings of the investigation public and to hold all perpetrators accountable. UNITED NATIONS The United States announced Wednesday it will seek to oust Iran from the U.N.'s premiere global body fighting for gender equality . The countries four-year terms on the commission will begin next year. The United States and Albania will hold an informal U.N. Security Council meeting on Wednesday, putting a spotlight on protests in Iran sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody.. This is a black day for womens rights, and for all human rights.. Iran, which is not currently a member of the commission, was one of five Asian nations nominated by ECOSOC's Asia group for seats on the body, with the others being China, Japan, Lebanon and Pakistan. US Criticized for Response to Iran's Election to UN Women's Rights Commission. In Tuesday's vote, 43 of the 54 nations in the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) elected Iran to the Commission on the Status of Women for a four-year term beginning next year.. By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press. The commission is. "Women and girls in Iran have for decades been brutalised," he said. We call on relevant authorities to support and enable the expression of their full human rights in a safe environment without fear of violence, prosecution, or persecution. We remain steadfast in upholding the rights of women and girls in every part of the world. "Women and girls in Iran have for decades been brutalized," he said. We call on governments, institutions and associations to condemn this decision, the statement continued. But he told VOA Persian that Thursday's U.S. statement about the vote was "feeble" and "conveyed a lack of resolve by an administration that pledges to carry the banner of human rights. TheChinese government systematically forces minority women to take pregnancy tests and submit to forced sterilization, intrauterine birth control devices, and abortions. The United Nations bizarrely elected Iran, one of the most violently misogynistic governments in the world, to a four-year term on its Commission on the Status of Women on Monday. "The State Department still won't say whether it voted for Iran, won't criticize Iran's accession to the commission, and hasn't once condemned the regime's treatment of women beyond language buried in the mandatory annual U.S. human rights report," Noronha told VOA Persian. When pressed about what the U.S. thinks of Iran becoming a member of the women's commission, he added, "Iran would qualify for much of what I just said, (as being among) countries that have very troubling records, deeply disturbing records. Of the. The ensuing government crackdown on protestors and innocent bystanders has led to an alarming human rights situation and growing calls for the United States and the international community to mobilize to address these . Harris said Washington would work with other countries to remove Iran from the . UNITED NATIONS (AP) The United States announced Wednesday it will . Iranwhich leads the world in executions and . We remain steadfast in upholding the rights of women and girls in every part of the world. Women are severely limited regarding their physical mobility, education, financial independence, and work opportunities and pay. We continue to call on regional groups to put forward candidates with strong human rights records for these U.N. bodies," the statement concluded. expresses support to the young iranian women leading and participating in the protests despite the difficulties and personal repercussions they are facing; strongly condemns the violence and discrimination against women in iran and deplores that women are obliged to wear a veil against their will on pain of violent reprisals or even death; calls UN Women statement on women's rights in Iran. Nov. 2, 2022, at 11:23 p.m. The countries that may have voted for Iran or Chinas presence on the commission includeAustralia, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Latvia, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As many as 450 Iranian women are murdered in honor killings every year. Harris said that the United States would work with other nations to oust Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, whose members are elected to four-year terms. The legal age of marriage for girls stayed at 13, and fathers and grandfathers could obtain permission from courts for their daughters to be married at a younger age, the report found. November 2, 2022 at 11:24 p.m. EDT. China also openly discriminates against women in the workplace, especially if the woman has children, and has a domestic violence epidemic. UN Women stands with the women of Iran in their rightful demands to protest injustice without reprisal, and to be free to exercise their bodily autonomy, including their choice of dress and also supports them in seeking accountability, and the upholding of their basic human rights as stipulated in the Charter of the United Nations. We align with the remarks by theHigh Commissioner for Human Rightson the need to ensure the rights to due process and release for all womenwho have been arbitrarily detained and with theSpecial Procedures of the Human Rights Council, in the call for the Iranian authorities to hold an independent, impartial, and prompt investigation into Ms Aminis death, to make the findings of the investigation public and to hold all perpetrators accountable. On Tuesday, the U.N. Economic and Social Council voted to elect the two countries to the Commission on the Status of Women. The remarks, which were provided to VOA on Thursday and largely repeated later at a State Department briefing, mark the United States' stand on the election of Iran to the U.N.s Commission on the Status of Women. The US and Albania held an informal UN Security Council meeting to look for ways to promote investigations into Iranian human rights abuses. The United Nations Economic and Social Council elected Iran to the Commission on the Status of Women last week. Iran is just starting a four-year term on the commission, which meets annually every March and aims to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women. At Thursday's State Department press briefing, spokesman Ned Price repeated much of the written statement sent earlier to VOA concerning the U.S. reaction to the vote. In the April 20 secret ballot, 43 of the 54 nations in the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) elected Iran to the commission for a four-year term beginning next year. UN Watch pointed out thatdespite the ballot being secret,at least four out of 15 Western democracies must have voted for Iran. Also in 2019, authorities forced a pair of twin sisters to record aconfession in which the sisters called themselves naive, dumb, and passive and of weak personality, for protesting hijab laws, according to the report. SHARE. November 2, 2022 at 7:52 pm. Iran has faced international condemnation after one of the country's most prominent human rights lawyers, detained for eight months, said she had been sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison and 148 lashes, according to her husband. "Iran has demonstrated through its denial of women's rights and brutal crackdown on its own people that it is unfit to serve on this Commission," Harris said in a statement. Last Tuesday, the UN's Economic and Social Council elected Iran along with China, Japan, Lebanon and Pakistan to the Commission on the Status of Women, the principal team handling. Iran is in the midst of a women-led uprising demanding the end of clerical rule with the slogan "Women, Life, Freedom." The nationwide protests were set off by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa. Daughters are under the supervision of their fathers, and wives are to follow the orders of their husbands. After the countrys 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranian women were stripped of rights. Its absurd and morally reprehensible. According to UN Watch, Iran received 43 votes (out of the 54 . Amnesty International and 42 other organizations called on the UN Human Rights Council to hold a special session on Iran as a matter of urgency, and urged the Council to establish an independent mechanism with investigative, reporting and accountability functions to address the most serious crimes under international law and other . The authorities failed to criminalize domestic violence, marital rape, early and forced marriage and other gender-based violence against women and girls, which remained widespread. The United States will try to remove Iran from the 45-member U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) over the government's denial of women's rights and brutal crackdown on protests, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Wednesday. The United Nations is facing growing scrutiny in the wake of Irans election to a top committee on womens rights within the organization. In a statement emailed to VOA Persian on Thursday, a State Department spokesperson said, "The unopposed candidacies of countries that engage in torture, abuse, and violations of human rights and due process was a troubling feature of this election.". Harris said that the United States would work with other nations to oust Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, whose members are elected to four-year terms. The United States announced Wednesday it will seek to oust Iran from the U.N.'s premiere global body fighting for gender equality because of its violation of the rights of women and girls and . This article originated in VOA's Persian Service. ", Iran's poor record on women's rights was under fire at the world body as recently as last month. But he said "egregious gender-based discrimination persists in law, practice and societal attitudes, disempowering women and girls from participating and contributing in society. We are writing to raise our deep concerns about the Iranian authorities' mobilization of their well-honed machinery of repression to . Ambassador Samantha Power denounced the outcome as an "outrage.". "Iran has. Because Iran just sentenced a female human rights lawyer to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes. Since 2017, the government has detained at least one million Uyghur Muslims and other minorities and forced them into re-education camps, where they are meant to learn loyalty to the state. Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images, Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images, 2022 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Biden vow to free Iran was expression of solidarity: WH press secretary, Videos show Iranian anti-hijab protesters knocking turbans off heads of clerics, North Korea sends Russia artillery shells for Ukraine war: White House, US wont hesitate to act as Iran plans imminent attack on Saudi Arabia: report. The UN Commission on the Status of Women and its members are charged with promoting women's rights and addressing "urgent problems requiring immediate attention in the field of women's rights". 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. The UN's top women's rights body is getting a new member: Iran. Iran is a member of the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women - a group promoting gender equality and female empowerment - even as protests sparked by the nation's Islamic law forcing women to cover themselves rage across the country. UN Women statement women's rights in Iran. Iran was elected to the Women's Rights Commission after receiving 43 votes Iran and China, two of the world's leading abusers of human rights, have been elected to the United Nations' commission on women's rights. An announcement by the U.N. on Wednesday said that Iran and Nigeria, another country that is no stranger to human rights abuses, would be promoted to the international organization's. "My fear is that the United States will continue to sell out the Iranian people so long as they are pursuing a nuclear deal with Iran," Noronha added. The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Stphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General. 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