In an open letter published in the New York Times, a group of well-known women from the worlds of politics, business, law, and technology asked that Tehran be promptly ejected from the UN Women’s Committee for its history of abusing women’s rights.
It is noteworthy that one of the UN bodies, the “Women’s Committee,” was established with the goal of attaining gender equality and providing support for the advancement of women. It is also regarded as the UN’s top control authority in the area of women.
The statement denounced the brutally suppressed popular revolt in Iran and said that the Iranian government ought to have been ejected from the committee due to its systemic and ongoing mistreatment of women and its brutality in putting down the most recent uprising.
The websites backed up the claim that this institution is losing credibility by the day it continues to exist in Iran and deal with women’s issues.
Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Lara Bush, the three former first ladies of the United States, Cristia Freeland, the deputy prime minister and finance minister of Canada, Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, and Oprah Winfrey, the producer and well-known voice in television introductions, all signed the letter.
The letter also pointed out how gender stereotypes and legal discrimination against women in Iran’s marriage, divorce, and inheritance laws are untrue.
The moment has come, according to the letter, for world leaders to stand in solidarity with Iranian women and girls to defend their rights.
Iran formally joined the UN Women’s Committee in March of last year; Tehran had already participated in the committee once, in 2010.
A draught resolution to exclude Iran from the United Nations Women’s Committee was recently developed by the United Nations Observatory.
calls for Iran to be kicked off of the UN “Women Committee”
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