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U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women's Rights

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FOXNews.com - EXCLUSIVE: U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on 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 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.

Buried 2,000 words deep in a U.N. press release distributed Wednesday on the filling of "vacancies in subsidiary bodies," was the stark announcement: Iran, along with representatives from 10 other nations, was "elected by acclamation," meaning that no open vote was requested or required by any member states — including the United States.
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This is your United Nations. Someone please explain to me why it remains relevant.
 
In other news, Saudi Arabia bans the Burqa.
 
and NEVER FORGET:

when it comes to one of the most dangerous threats to human life on the planet, the obama administration, according to the obama administration, has NO POLICY

No effective policy on Iran, Gates says

the most incompetent "leadership" america has ever had to endure
 
This is funny thought, because I looked this up the only site I could find it on was Fox News, and fox.


A Disarming Election - Anne Bayefsky - National Review Online

Yet again Fox fails to tell the truth, or at least the whole truth to this story. Who in their right mind would believe that the UN would elect Iran for the woman rights commission. The fact the only story on this is on fox news should also tell you something.

From my link,

On April 9, 2007 there was a United Nations believe-it-or-not moment extraordinaire. At the same time that Iran’s President Ahmadinejad declared his country was now capable of industrial-scale uranium enrichment, the U.N. reelected Iran as a vice chairman of the U.N. Disarmament Commission.
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This is a disgrace.

The United Nations proves once again that it is the most cynical, most corrupt institution in the world. When dictatorships with the most barbaric policies sit on its Human Rights Council and serial women's rights abusers are allowed into the Commission on Women's Rights, then any credibility these bodies may have had to begin with (in the eyes of the most naive observers) should be long gone by now.

Anyone who wishes to learn more about the history of women's rights in Iran should watch this film: The Stoning of Soraya M.

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Does Libya still have its UN seat on the Human Rights committee?
 
RyrineaHaruno said:
Yet again Fox fails to tell the truth, or at least the whole truth to this story. Who in their right mind would believe that the UN would elect Iran for the woman rights commission. The fact the only story on this is on fox news should also tell you something.
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It's actually on MANY sites, just not the liberal news sites yet (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc). They haven't figured out how to spin this yet.
 
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