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Posted: May 03, 2010, 12:15 PM by NP Editor

The UN seems determined to never let a chance go by to make itself look ridiculous. The latest example is the election last week of Iran as a member of the Commission on the Status of Women, part of the UN’s economic and social council. Women are so overwhelmingly discriminated against in Iran that they'd have to make considerable progress just to claim  second-rate status. As the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran pointed out, “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.”

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Stone women to death, get appointed to UN women's rights body

Posted: May 03, 2010, 1:14 PM by Araminta Wordsworth Filed under: Araminta Wordsworth,FC Abroad,Iran,UN,women's rights

Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. At first glance, the headline looks like a joke — “Iran wins a seat on UN Commission on the Status of Women.” But this is no laughing matter. The country that sees women as second-class citizens and stones adulteresses to death has won a place by default on the world body’s commission charged with improving the lot of women around the world. Worse still, it acquired — I refuse to use the word “won” — the place by default, thanks to the UN’s bloc voting procedure. It’s the second time the mullahs have used manipulation of the rules to land a place on the commission. As a U.S. official told Fox News, “there is no opportunity [to object]. That is not how the procedure works.”

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