“Phineas Fahrquar”
Public Secrets
4/29/2010
I know it shouldn’t, but this just leaves me flabbergasted: the UN has elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women:
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. [Emphasis CAJ]
No state that implements sharia law should be anywhere near anything resembling a human rights body, especially one concerned with women. Iran is one of the worst. Women are brutally repressed in Iran: they face death by stoning; their political and legal rights are severely restricted; they face rape in prison by government officials; and they are even gunned down in the streets.
And almost as appalling is that the United States didn’t speak out against this travesty. Yet another glorious moment in the history of Smart Power.
LINKS: More at Hot Air. And thanks to Liberty Pundits for the link!
CAJ Note: Congressman Thaddeus McCotter released this statement today:
The U.N. Salts Iranian Women’s Wounds: McCotter Denounces Iran’s Election to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women
Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-MI), chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee, has issued the following statement:
“By electing the Tehran butchers to its Commission on the Status of Women, a morally rancid United Nations has salted the wounds of the Iranian freedom movement’s regime-murdered martyrs, such as Neda Soltan and Taraneh Mousavi. From today forth, may no friend of Lady Liberty ever be fool enough to trust this global Tammany Hall with their freedom and security.”
